A 59 -year -old missing woman who was rescued on Monday in the depths of a rain drainage system in Poway after her disappearance died, the authorities announced on Tuesday.
After believing that Yafang Zhou was in the pipes, crews located and extracted his mid-afternoon and ran it to the hospital in serious condition. She died on Monday at 4:15 p.m., a spokesperson for the forensic doctor’s office.
Several questions remain on her disappearance, for how long she has been in drainage and how the San Diego police located it. Police refused to disclose details.
Zhou was seen for the last time around midnight on March 25 on Union Street, just north of Broadway, in downtown San Diego, according to a social media police station published last week. His family reported his disappearance on April 3.
Four days later, the search for Elle took detectives in an area of Beeler Canyon Road, south of Scripps Poway Parkway. The police did not say why they went to the region, which includes a hiking and bicycle path and is more than 20 miles northeast of the city center.
Outside an opening of the rain -sided dredges along Beeler Canyon Road, detectives have found its personal effects. They also heard the sound of a woman’s voice inside the pipe system and quickly called the Poway fire service to get help. The San Diego rescue department has also responded, including its urban research and rescue team.
Erik Windsor, the head of the fire rescue battalion, said the fire teams withdrew a man’s coverage in the general area of the opening of rainfall drainage, inserted a powerful listening device and heard moaning. “With this confirmation of life, we have inserted our rescuers into the rain drainage system through one of the covers in the man’s hole,” he said.
But tight places like temporary sewers can be loaded with danger, from dangerous gases to wild animals. “We don’t take people and rescuers at all in confined spaces,” he said.
The members of the urban research and rescue team have adapted and headed for rain drainage – one on the right, the other on the left – in tight pipes that they had to crawl by the army, Windsor said. Everyone went as far as they could but did not find it.
The officials asked that small robots with cameras be brought to the scene so that they can get a visual inside the pipes. And while these assets were on the way, the rescuers began to open the covers of a man’s hole who put the way to Beeler Canyon in the hope of finding the woman.
After lifting the cover of a man hole in Brush, they spotted the legs of the missing woman, Windsor said. A rescuer was lowered into the hole to attach the woman to a harness. Windsor said she had been hoisted in about 10 minutes and was placed in an ambulance pending.
Windsor said that the authorities thought that the woman had entered the rain drainage system by opening nearby exit, the site where her property had been found.
The officials said that no unfair game was suspected.
Originally published:
California Daily Newspapers
