The Associated Press
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — It turns out a worker wasn’t stuck inside a pipe in New Jersey’s second-largest city.
Jersey City Fire Chief Darren Rivers says it was actually a bag of trash.
He says workers with the Jersey City Incinerator Authority were checking the pipe with a camera when they thought they saw a human body part at 5:30 a.m. Friday.
Emergency crews converged on the scene of the manhole.
Firefighters set up a hoist and two rescuers wearing air packs and hazardous material suits spent about 30 minutes down the hole before they emerged just before 8 a.m.
The fire chief says the only thing they found was the bag of trash.