Rescuers littered a Hialeah street with piles of garbage, searching for a potentially trapped person inside of a garbage truck, according to Hialeah Fire Rescue.
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Bags of wet, smelly garbage piled up on a Hialeah street Friday morning as firefighters emptied a garbage truck to search for someone who might have been trapped inside.
The call came in after Waste Management workers heard a strange noise coming from the back of the truck, according to David Rodriguez, a Hialeah Fire-Rescue spokesman.
When recue crews first arrived, they tried using their thermal equipment to see if someone was inside. When they found nothing, they decided to roll up their sleeves and start digging through the contents, shoveling hundreds of bags onto the street.
A crew cleans up the mess after firefighters dumped out a truck’s contents looking for a human.
Michelle Marchante
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“It’s a chaotic scene, trash is everywhere,” Rodriguez said. “We are physically sifting through trash to see if we find anyone.”
Local TV traffic helicopters captured rescuers throwing thousands of pounds of trash onto the street in the 7400 block of West 20th Avenue.
No one was found, Rodriguez said, but firefighters kept digging for more than an hour, until the truck was empty, just to be sure.
Then, another garbage crew arrived to clean up the mess and load the bags onto another truck.
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