Horror as toddler falls down deep, narrow pipe in yard and triggers huge rescue in chilling echo of Jessica McClure incident

Heart-stopping assemblage camera footage caught nan infinitesimal emergency crews successful Kansas desperately tried to rescue a toddler who had fallen down a heavy constrictive PVC tube successful his yard.

The 14-month-old boy named Bentley had been playing successful his beforehand gait erstwhile he plummeted into nan 10 to 12-feet heavy sump pump drain conscionable earlier 2pm connected Sunday, according to Moundridge police.

He was past stuck underground successful nan spread that was conscionable 1 ft successful diameter for much than 20 minutes arsenic EMS crews tried to fig retired really to get him out.

'It was truthful stressful and traumatic honestly, and it felt for illustration nan longest 25 minutes of my life,' nan boy's mother, Elizabeth, told KAKE. 

She said she had been watching her 2 children tally astir successful nan beforehand gait that afternoon, and was adjacent erstwhile Bentley walked complete nan screen to nan drain. 

It had been moved nan tiniest spot disconnected of nan hole, Elizabeth said, and erstwhile Bentley stepped connected it, he fell correct successful beforehand of her eyes.

'When he stepped connected it, it flipped,' she recounted. 'He fell truthful fast, I couldn't drawback him.'

'I automatically conscionable screamed and screamed.'

Those screams caught nan attraction of her husband, Blake, who was moving connected a car successful nan adjacent driveway.

'My woman screamed that horrible scream,' he said. 

'I was pinch her erstwhile he gave commencement to 2 babies and this is nan shriek you ne'er want to perceive because you cognize thing treacherous has happened.' 

He later told KWCH that he couldn't ideate what his woman thought erstwhile she saw Bentley autumn 'because for each she knew it was a sewer line, it was afloat of water, aliases it was 50 feet deep. She had nary idea.'

The parents frantically called 911 and said officers arrived to their location wrong 5 minutes. 

They past recovered that nan boy landed upright connected his feet. 

At first, EMS crews tried to prevention nan boy pinch conscionable a rope.

'The problem is that a 14-month-old kid does not grip commands very well,' said Assistant Fire Chief Shawn Stucky.

'The kid fought america and took nan statement distant from his body, wherever it needed to be.'

Rookie serviceman Ronnie Wagner, who has only been pinch nan section for 1 month, past came up pinch nan thought to manner a makeshift 16-foot-long drawback rod retired of a smaller PVC tube and statement from nan section occurrence department.

He past tied a circle lasso astatine 1 end, piped it down and fished it astir nan boy's precocious body.

They were past capable to propulsion Bentley to information and were seen putting nan mud-covered kid backmost successful his father's hands.

If that hadn't worked, Wagner said they 'would've had to commencement digging, bring successful immoderate instrumentality and commencement digging a really large spread successful nan beforehand gait and excavation him out, which would've been time-consuming.'

Meanwhile, nan young boy kept crying and screaming passim nan ordeal, arsenic his parents were heard trying to reassure him.

'We're gonna get you retired Bentley, it's OK,' his begetter Blake said, arsenic he looked down nan heavy spread while holding his different son's hand.

'Momma's correct here. We're gonna get you out. It's OK,' Bentley's mother, Elizabeth, said arsenic she held backmost tears.

But, they said, they were really horrified and stressed arsenic officers tried to propulsion their boy to safety.

'It's horrifying,' Blake told KSNW. 'It's haunting to consciousness truthful helpless knowing that your kid is successful superior request of help.

'Looking down astatine him, he was screaming, he wanted retired of there, he wanted help, and you can't do anything. It's conscionable complete helplessness.'

The family now says they are grateful to first responders who saved their son.

'We judge it is thing short of a occurrence that a babe tin autumn [into] thing that is 5 times his tallness and travel retired wholly unscathed,' Blake said.

He and his woman opportunity they now scheme to bolt nan screen down truthful noting tin move it.

They said it is excessively dense for a toddler to move, but it must person gotten pushed erstwhile mowing nan lawn. 

The terrifying ordeal is reminiscent of erstwhile Jessica McClure fell 22 feet beneath crushed successful a good successful October 1987.

Her plight captivated an immense tv audience, arsenic Baby Jessica sang astir Winnie nan Pooh.

Millions tuned successful and prayed for her information arsenic they watched dozens of rescuers moving nighttime and time to prevention her from wrong an abandoned well.

During nan ordeal, kind-hearted viewers besides donated money to thief nan small woman recover.

Jessica has since said successful nan past that she has small representation of being wedged successful nan tube aliases of nan 15 operations that followed her ordeal.

A scar from her hairline to nan span of her chemoreceptor is still visible nevertheless wherever her caput rubbed against nan wall of nan well. 

Jessica besides mislaid a toed to gangrene because 1 limb was pinned supra her caput successful nan underground shaft.