Video: Missing man rescued after being buried to his shoulders in quick sand in Florida

JACKSONVILLE, Flo. - A missing antheral was brought to information successful a harrowing rescue aft being recovered shoulders heavy successful speedy soil successful Florida. 

According to the Putnam County Sheriff's Office, it each started erstwhile a antheral was reported missing from Jacksonville. His past known interaction was with his begetter connected Feb. 14, and authorities aboriginal recovered his car abandoned connected Feb. 23.

(Putnam County Sheriff's Office / FOX Weather)

Deputies with the Putnam County Sheriff's Office contacted the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office and requested a payment cheque astatine his location aft a hunt by level yielded nary findings.

Authorities learned that the antheral was depressed owed to a caller break-up, and that's erstwhile a missing persons study was filed.

On Wednesday, the antheral was located enarthrosis heavy successful mud adjacent to a get pit, which is simply a pit resulting from the excavation of worldly for usage successful embankments.

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He was capable to speech to an worker who couldn't scope him owed to the unstable quality of the surrounding ground.

Crews enactment to rescue a antheral stuck successful speedy sand.

(Putnam County Sheriff's Office / FOX Weather)

Video released from the sheriff's bureau shows the antheral covered up to his shoulders successful mud, and helium had sunk beneath the level of the writer surrounding the get pit, making him virtually camouflaged, according to officials.

Several occurrence and rescue crews tried to resistance the antheral retired of the mud utilizing ropes, but were unsuccessful. Then, rescuers brought successful ladders and different supplies to safely excavation him out.

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Because of the speedy sand, crews had to enactment dilatory truthful they wouldn't sink. Ladders, backboards and pallets were placed connected the crushed to supply a harmless workspace to behaviour the rescue.

He was yet freed astir 8:30 p.m. and helium was flown by aerial ambulance to a trauma halfway successful captious condition.

The sheriff's bureau said charges aren't being filed owed to his intelligence health.

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"We anticipation that helium is capable to retrieve from this ordeal some physically and mentally," the sheriff's bureau said connected societal media.

He was antecedently known to instrumentality enforcement owed to a trespassing incidental successful 2023.

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