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    SC Firefighters Rescue Person Buried Shoulders-Deep in Ditch

    Aug. 13, 2020
    Midway Fire Rescue crews needed more than an hour to pull out a person who was trapped in a ditch in the Pawleys Island area Thursday.

    By Alex Lang

    Source The Sun News (Myrtle Beach, S.C.)

    Midway, SC, Fire Rescue
    Midway, SC, Fire Rescue crews rescued a person who was buried shoulder-deep in a ditch in the Pawleys Island area Thursday.
    Midway, SC, Fire Rescue crews rescued a person who was buried shoulder-deep in a ditch in the Pawleys Island area Thursday.

    Rescue crews saved a person “buried up to (the) shoulders in the Pawleys Island area.

    Firefighters went to 67 R.B. Thompson Way around 10:30 a.m. Thursday for a report of a person trapped in a ditch. The victim was conscious and was nearly buried, according to Midway Fire Rescue.

    It took crews a little more than an hour to rescue the victim. The person was taken to the hospital.

    Nearby Martin Luther King Boulevard was blocked and first-responders asked people to avoid the area.

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