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(Brooklyn - WABC, December 4, 2006) - A New York City woman is recovering in the hospital after she was trapped in a collapsed sidewalk in Brooklyn Monday night.
NewsCopter 7 was overhead shortly after 6 p.m., as rescue crews attended to the woman inside the hole at Avenue N and East 55th Street in the Flatlands section.
Eyewitness News reporter Jim Dolan has more from the scene.
We're told the 64-year-old woman was walking on the sidewalk when a four foot deep sinkhole just opened up and swallowed her. The woman was trapped under two huge, heavy chunks of concrete and could not move until Ladder Company 170 showed up.
"We saw that the woman was in a sitting position with a slab of the sidewalk sitting across her waist," Lt. Kevin McCabe, Ladder 170, said.
We're told the woman had just picked up her two granddaughters from a nearby dance studio, brought the children home and then went to the car to get two bags of groceries when the sidewalk just collapsed.
Fireman Jim McNulty jumped into the hole.
"I noticed she had a pocketbook down there and bags of groceries... I said a hell of a night to be going to get groceries and she kinda chuckled at that," he said.
McNulty moved the concrete slab and after stabilizing the woman with a cervical collar and a back brace, he helped lift her out of the hole.
"She's in pain, she was in a lot of pain, she was hurt," he said.
This is no word yet on what may have caused the sidewalk to collapse.
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