Many mysteries remain about this rescue.
An Arizona woman fell into a well over the weekend and decided to stay there overnight before calling for help.
A woman fell 15 feet from a dry well surrounded by a chain-link fence in a field in Chandler Sunday night. FOX 10 Phoenix reported.
There was a ladder in the well, which was only a few feet wide, but the unidentified woman was unable to climb out due to her injuries. She was on the premises with another person who remained with her after her fall.
“We don’t know why, but she stayed in the hole and decided to call us this morning,” Chandler Fire Chief Carlos Vargas told the department.
“They didn’t give us too many details about how the incident happened.”
Officials said the woman did not lose consciousness, but suffered injuries to her legs and lower back. It took her rescuers about an hour and a half to pull her out of her well on Monday morning.
She was then taken to a local hospital.
“[She was] “They were able to talk to us throughout the entire operation, and that’s when we upgraded the call to a technical rescue incident and put together a plan to conduct the rescue,” Vargas told Fox 10.
Officials said there was no fault on the part of the construction company in trying to protect the well.
The newspaper contacted Chandler’s fire and police departments for more information.
