Neighbors Wesley and Matt Straffin heard the man's calls for help the morning after he fell into the hole Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her ...

“They used a hoist system off of one of our ladder ... and then they hoisted him back up using a rope pulley system to where our EMS crew was waiting at the top of the hole,” Francis says.

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