PORTLAND, Oregon — Two people were safely rescued from a manhole in North Portland’s Eliot neighborhood Friday morning.
According to Portland Fire and Rescue, crews were dispatched around 9:40 a.m. to the area of North Interstate Avenue and and North Russell Street on reports of two unconscious people stuck down a manhole. When they arrived, they found the two people in the manhole who were unable to get out, but both were conscious at the time.
Portland Fire told KGW that the two people were working in a confined space and had lost consciousness at one point due to a lack of oxygen. Air was pushed
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