{"id":18177,"date":"2011-04-20T17:08:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T00:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-city-employee-rescued-after-falling-inside-sewer-pumping-station\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T00:00:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T07:00:25","slug":"kent-city-employee-rescued-after-falling-inside-sewer-pumping-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-city-employee-rescued-after-falling-inside-sewer-pumping-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent city employee rescued after falling inside sewer pumping station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>A city of Kent employee was successfully rescued Wednesday after he was injured in a fall that left him approximately 15 feet underground in one of the city\u2019s sewer pumping stations.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The incident was first reported at 2:11 p.m. Wednesday in the 21200 block of Frager Road along the Green River, according to a Kent Fire Department media release. The man had fallen an unknown distance while working on a portion of the sewer system.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Because space was limited, Kent firefighters used a hoisting system to bring the patient out once they had secured him onto a backboard. The backboard was necessary to limit movement and reduce the chance of aggravating any injuries the patient may have suffered when he fell. The man suffered non-life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Kent Fire Department has a fully trained confined space rescue team. A confined space is one that is not intended for continual human occupation and that can contain a low oxygen or toxic atmosphere.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A city of Kent employee was successfully rescued Wednesday after he was injured in a fall that left him approximately 15 feet underground in one of the city\u2019s sewer pumping stations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":18178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-18177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18177"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}