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Related: About this forumQueens Gravedigger Rescued From Burial Plot Recovering
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – New York City firefighters and emergency personnel responded en masse to a cemetery in Queens where a veteran gravedigger needed rescuing from the bottom of a burial plot Friday.
As CBS 2’s Steve Langford reported, Ramon Veras was in bad shape but grateful to be alive Saturday after he took a frightening 8-foot tumble into the narrow tomb he was working on.
“Maybe he just had a bad day and lost sight of what he was doing and tripped and fell in,” FDNY firefighter Jim Reichman said.
Reichman was part of the rescue effort at St. John Cemetery.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/09/06/queens-gravedigger-rescued-from-burial-plot-recovering/
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Queens Gravedigger Rescued From Burial Plot Recovering (Original Post)
hrmjustin
Sep 2014
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Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)1. Man, Justin, this reads like a Twilight Zone episode!
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)2. That is why I posted it as its own op intead of the nyc thread.
Just unreal.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)3. 6 feet is a helluva drop!
I'm glad he's okay!
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)4. He is lucky because if it was a three person plot it would have been 10 feet.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)6. It's is true.
Poor guy.