{"id":53549,"date":"2025-07-10T07:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T07:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/53549\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T07:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T07:40:13","slug":"los-angeles-wilmington-tunnel-collapse-leads-to-rescue-of-31-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/53549\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Wilmington tunnel collapse leads to rescue of 31 workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-one construction workers were rescued when an underground industrial tunnel they were working in collapsed in Los Angeles Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The workers were inside the tunnel, 300 to 400 feet below the surface, just before 8 p.m., when the collapse occurred, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lafd.org\/alert\/update-tunnel-rescue-07092025-inc1573%5C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Los Angeles Fire Department said.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 12 to 15-foot mound of dirt separated some of the workers from the main group in the 18-foot diameter, underground shaft in the Wilmington neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>The trapped workers managed to climb over the tall barrier to regroup with others in the tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>Officials were unsure how large the collapse was and didn\u2019t release the cause of the collapse.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.77777778;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36492636\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/least-15-trapped-industrial-tunnel-107927578.jpg\" alt=\"Thirty-one workers became trapped when a tunnel collapsed in\u00a0Los\u00a0Angeles' Wilmington area on Wednesday night.\" class=\"wp-image-36492636\"  \/>Thirty-one workers became trapped when a tunnel collapsed in\u00a0Los\u00a0Angeles\u2019 Wilmington area on Wednesday night.  KABC<\/p>\n<p>The workers took turns taking shuttle carts back to the only entry\/access point in the tunnel, five to six miles from the site of the collapse.<\/p>\n<p>Cranes were used to hoist the workers to the surface.<\/p>\n<p>Over 100 first responders were at the scene to meet the freed crew and conduct medical evaluations.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.77777778;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36492637\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/least-15-trapped-industrial-tunnel-107927614.jpg\" alt=\"The workers had been working inside a tunnel that was being constructed for wastewater management.\" class=\"wp-image-36492637\"  \/>The workers had been working inside a tunnel that was being constructed for wastewater management. KABC<\/p>\n<p>There were no signs of \u201cvisible injuries,\u201d the LAFD reported.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was at the scene, speaking with several of the rescued workers hours after the collapse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just spoke with many of the workers who were trapped. Thank you to all of our brave first responders who acted immediately. You are LA\u2019s true heroes,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MayorOfLA\/status\/1943170100955070632\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">she wrote on X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tunnel is being constructed for municipal waste management, part of the $630.5 million Los Angeles Effluent Outfall Tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>The tunnel project was greenlit in April 2019, with construction on the shaft\u2019s opening beginning in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Mining officially began on the main tunnel in January 2022.<\/p>\n<p>It is planned to stretch 7 miles from the Carson shaft site to Royal Palms Beach, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clearwater.lacsd.org\/pdf\/ClewaterProgramUpdate-July2024%20Presentation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LA County Sanitation District\u2019s Clearwater Project.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The goal of the project is to update the aging infrastructure built in 1937 and 1958, make the sewage system more efficient in the earthquake-prone area and update the capacity that the current tunnels can hold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thirty-one construction workers were rescued when an underground industrial tunnel they were working in collapsed in Los Angeles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337,23763,1154],"class_list":{"0":"post-53549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-tunnels","14":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114827809554219597","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}