On Friday afternoon, outside an Arlington ISD elementary school, firefighters managed to liberate a small girl trapped in a storm drain for over an hour.
Crews were visible in the video from Texas Sky Ranger outside Swift Elementary School on South Fielder Road. A student fell into a storm drain at around 3:30 pm, according to a spokeswoman for Arlington ISD.
The toddler was observed being disengaged from the drain around an hour later while being surrounded by emergency personnel. The pupil got up, went to a stretcher, and got onto an ambulance.
According to Arlington firemen, she was taken to a hospital for evaluation, although she didn’t seem gravely harmed.
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“The whole time she was in the storm drain, we had our crews down there and she was able to talk to us and respond,” said Jeff Durand with Arlington Fire. “And like I said, when we got her unstuck, she was able to kind of get off the ground on her own power.”
According to firefighters, she allegedly entered the drain to recover her grandmother’s blown-away apron. Crews, according to Durand, were successful in getting it back.
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