Audio from first responders reveals the desperate effort to save two teens who became trapped under 10 feet of sand after the hole they were digging on a New Jersey beach collapsed on top of them.
Tom River Fire District 1 Administrator Brian Kubiel said the rescuers had to be careful with heavy equipment because any vibrations could refill the hole."The only thing we could use heavy equipment for was to move the sand away from the hole," he said, according to the New York Post."We had to resort to our tech rescue team using shoring and other means, and hand dig the victims out. They were all racing against the rising tide.
During a family beach trip, Levi Caverly, 18, and his 17-year-old sister were digging a 10-foot hole when it caved in and trapped them. The sister escaped, but the 18-year-old teen passed away during the collapse."It was just a heartbreaking situation. We could see one victim and we couldn’t see the other, and we had to find that one, and it took a while," he said, according to the
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