The Colorado Springs Fire Department made the following post on Facebook Tuesday:
On Tuesday morning, May 21, the Colorado Springs Fire Department (CSFD) responded to a call from a local waste disposal operator saying he could hear a man calling for help from the back of the waste truck.
Truck 1, Engine 2, Battalion Chief 1, Medical Lieutenant 73, and Special Operations 52 responded and set up a technical rescue in order to retrieve the man from the back of the truck. It was determined that the man had been seeking refuge from the cold weather in a dumpster overnight.
The waste disposal service conducted morning rounds to collect trash around town and eventually collected the dumpster the man was in. It wasn’t until later that the waste disposal operator could hear someone calling for help, at which point the driver pulled over and called 911 for help.
Fire officials assessed how exactly they could get the person out of the truck, since it was not a typical garbage truck that goes through a neighborhood, but rather a dump truck, which lifts up dumpsters and tosses in trash from the top, krdo.com reported.
CSFD used ropes tied to a Stokes basket, and strapped the man to it. A ladder truck lifted the patient out and onto the ground safely, the report said.
The man was successfully rescued from the truck and taken to the hospital for minor injuries.