More than 12 hours of painstaking and methodical searching paid off for firefighters today when they found a 13-year-old boy who fell 25 feet into a sewage pipe in Griffith Park “alive and talking.”
Los Angeles Fire Department Capt. Erik Scott made the announcement at 5:41 a.m.
“We have found Jesse Hernandez,” he said. Firefighters had narrowed the search to two main areas and opened a maintenance hatch near the intersection of the 134 and 5 freeways and found Jesse, Scott said.
Firefighters gave him a cellphone so he could reassure his family, and paramedics took the teen to a hospital for decontamination and medical aid, Scott said.