Rescue In Nashville: Firefighters Free Homeless Man Stuck In Storm Drain For Four Days


A rescue in Nashville freed a homeless man stuck in a storm drain for four days. Firefighters dug a hole in the ground and broke through a concrete pipe in order to free the homeless man stuck in the storm drain. Nashville firefighters were called to the scene after a passerby heard the homeless man calling for help from inside the storm drain.

Nashville Fire Department officials told the media that the man crawled into the storm drain from an opening along Charlotte Avenue last Thursday. It remains unclear exactly how the man was able to get inside the storm drain.

“Praise God. Thank you. I have been down here forever,” the homeless man reportedly said after Nashville firefighters rescued him.

“And he was just very happy at that point. If we had some rain, you know obviously he was in a storm drain, so it could have ended very badly for him. I think he had a guardian angel overlooking him and he was able to get out of there alive,” Brian Williams, the rescue in Nashville witness who head the homeless man’s cried for help, said.

The Nashville homeless man became stuck in a narrow storm drain pipe that ran next to the tennis courts at the Centennial Sportsplex. The unidentified man was reportedly dehydrated and sustained cuts in multiple spots on his body. After the successful rescue in Nashville, the homeless man was given oxygen and then taken to a local hospital for treatment and evaluation.

Nashville firefighters reportedly said that the homeless man initially told them that he had climbed inside the storm drain because he “wanted to be adventurous” but later said that he was hiding because he was being chase. Local police officers feel the man might be “mentally unstable,” according to a CBS report on the rescue in Nashville.

“We went down through about two and a half, three feet of earth with gravel mixed in it,” Nashville District Fire Chief Ardrel Sawyers said. “[Firefighters] had to physically, with a sledge hammer, bust open about a five foot section of drain pipe to get him out.”

Firefighters used their flashlights and cellphone screen light to find the homeless man stuck inside the storm drain, Williams said. The man was reportedly stuck about 10 feet from the opening of the narrow drain pipe.

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