CHILD LINGERS IN DRAIN.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer PALMDALE - Firefighters and sheriff's deputies spent 90 minutes Monday coaxing a 12-year-old boy out of a three-foot-diameter storm drain storm drain n. 1. A storm sewer. 2. A catch basin. beneath a Palmdale street. The boy, who deputies said was upset about being disciplined for a theft at a store the night before, came out after a firefighter crawled into the drain to talk to him and a utility crew opened a nearby manhole cover. ``He just didn't want to come out,'' Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Fire Capt. Sean Greene said. ``We didn't want to wrestle him out.'' The boy, who had apparently entered the drain through its opening at a catch basin catch basin n. 1. A receptacle at the entrance to a sewer designed to keep out large or obstructive matter. 2. A reservoir for collecting surface drainage or runoff. for storm water, was not injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. , but he was taken to Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Hospital for observation. Sheriff's deputies said they were considering requesting that he be charged in juvenile court juvenile court Special court handling problems of delinquent, neglected, or abused children. Two types of cases are processed by a juvenile court: civil matters, often concerning care of an abandoned or impoverished child, and criminal matters, arising from antisocial with obstructing a peace officer or trespassing. Firefighters were most alarmed about the boy's story that a friend was in another nearby section of the storm drain, Greene said. A deputy thought he heard a sound in the drain, but officials could neither see a second boy nor get a response. Officials also checked at the friend's school and learned that he was absent. A fire department urban search-and-rescue team was called out to search the drain but found it empty: The friend was eventually located at home. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Firefighters prepare to look for a second boy, whom the upset 12-year-old told them was also in the storm drain in Palmdale. Phil McCarten/Staff Photographer |
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