Firefighters completed a dramatic rescue of an unconscious man from an enclosed pit at a pumping station in Kiryat Bialik on Friday, Israel's Fire and Rescue Services reported. The victim was extracted from a depth of 4–5 meters in a confined space with contaminated air and evacuated in serious condition.
Firefighters from the Krayot station, together with the special rescue unit (YaL"M), completed a complex rescue operation around midday Friday at a pumping station in Kiryat Bialik. A man fell into an enclosed pit 4–5 meters deep on Ha'aravonim Street and lost consciousness due to contaminated air. Crews ventilated the space, sprayed water to purify the air, then a rescuer descended, connected the victim to a clean-air mask, and extracted him. The man was evacuated in serious condition — the outcome of a rescue that had been reported as ongoing at 12:06 Jerusalem.
This development is the latest in a series of pit rescues in Kiryat Bialik reported by The Zioneer on Friday. At 12:06 Jerusalem, we reported a worker in his 30s who had fallen into a 5-meter sewage pit on Ha'Eshkolot Street and was being rescued while unconscious — that incident involved a different location and victim. Separately at the same clock time, we reported a man in his 30s who had fallen into a 4-meter pit at a factory; he was evacuated to Rambam Hospital in stable but serious condition. An initial, unverified scanner report at that same minute had described a man in his 70s found unconscious in a deep pit; subsequent reporting corrected the age and confirmed multiple separate events. The three Friday incidents — the factory pit, the sewage pit on Ha'Eshkolot, and the pumping-station pit on Ha'aravonim — are distinct, each with its own victim and address.
As The Zioneer reported on June 24, a 49-year-old woman was rescued from a 4–5 meter drainage pit in Binyamina earlier this week, and on June 20 a rescue team was called to assist in the Jerusalem area. These events are part of a wider pattern of confined-space rescues, though no common cause has been identified.
It remains unclear how the man came to fall into the pumping-station pit, and no further details on his identity or condition update have been released since the rescue was completed.
5 developments
- StrongFirefighters rescue 49-year-old woman who fell into deep drainage pit in Binyamina
- DevelopingWorker moderately injured in fall from height in Kiryat Bialik
- DevelopingWorker, 32, critically injured after falling from scaffolding into pit in Kiryat Motzkin
- DevelopingFirefighters rescue child trapped in concrete bin in Beitar Illit
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