A woman was hospitalized with serious injuries after she was rescued from a garbage truck in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Monday, officials said.<\/p>\n
They believe she was in a dumpster emptied into the hopper, the garbage cargo container behind the cab, as the truck was on its daily route, the Manchester Fire Department said in a statement. She was stuck amid refuse that was compacted four times, it said, though it wasn’t entirely clear whether that was the source of her injuries.<\/p>\n
“She was dumped at some point,” Fire Chief Ryan J. Cashin said in an interview at the scene.<\/p>\n
What she was doing in the dumpster remained a mystery. Cashin said a sanitation worker on to the truck spotted the woman in the hopper via the vehicle’s video system, which has at least one camera trained inside the hopper. <\/p>\n
The woman was standing and had been yelling for help when firefighters arrived, the fire department statement said.<\/p>\n
She was saved with the help of a rescue basket that was lowered into the hopper from a ladder truck, which was used almost as a crane.<\/p>\n
The woman was taken to a trauma facility, the fire department said. Her exact condition was unavailable, and representatives of the facility, Elliot Hospital, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
“I have never seen one like this,” Cashin said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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