Man Trapped After Ditch Collapses; N.Y. State Firefighters Perform Intense Four-Hour Rescue

    July 27, 2004
    A Monticello church volunteer, trapped waist-high in mud when the drainage ditch he was working in collapsed, was pulled from the earth after a four-hour rescue effort.
    Times Herald-Record / Jed Egan
    Rescue workers carry Carl Williams, 20, of Monticello, to an ambulance after extracting him from a ditch where he had been trapped for nearly four hours. Williams was working in the drainage ditch for a renovation project at Bethlehem Temple Church on Fairgrounds Road.
    Rescue workers carry Carl Williams, 20, of Monticello, to an ambulance after extracting him from a ditch where he had been trapped for nearly four hours. Williams was working in the drainage ditch for a renovation project at Bethlehem Temple Church on Fairgrounds Road.
    Monticello

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