ASPEN — Aspen firefighters scrambled to a manhole on Maroon Creek Road on Monday morning to rescue two men who were working in a water pipe, unaware water was rising inside it.
“They were fine,” said Fire Chief Darryl Grob. In fact, he said, the men didn’t know they were the focus of a rescue until a couple of firefighters yelled down the pipe to them from an Aspen Water Department hydro-electric plant, located farther up the road, to the southwest.
The men entered the pipe at a manhole located in the road at the bottom of the hill beyond Aspen Highlands. From that point, they had maneuvered uphill inside the 20-inch diameter pipe and were unaware that water had begun to flow in the pipe below them, according to Grob.
A water department employee, keeping watch at the manhole, spied the flowing water and called for assistance.
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