Construction Workers Reach Safety After Los Angeles Industrial Tunnel Partially Collapses: ‘everyone Is Safe’

Officials are breathing a sigh of alleviation aft much than 30 building workers successful an business passageway successful Los Angeles reached information aft it partially collapsed. 

The cave-in occurred betwixt nan passageway boring instrumentality 5 miles from nan entranceway and nan building workers who were moving 6 miles in. 

The workers, who were astir 400 feet underground, scrambled complete loose ungraded much than 12 feet precocious to scope nan passageway boring instrumentality and past were transported backmost to nan opening. Aerial footage showed workers being brought retired of nan passageway successful a yellowish cage hoisted up by a crane.

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None of those rescued had awesome injuries, authorities said.

This image taken from footage provided by KABC/ABC7 Los Angeles shows first responders moving nan segment aft a passageway collapsed connected Wednesday, July 9, 2025, successful Los Angeles.  (KABC/ABC7 Los Angeles via AP)

"Everyone is safe. Thank you to L.A.’s first responders and to nan group passim our metropolis who activity each time to make L.A. better," Los Angles Mayor Karen Bass wrote connected X. 

Speaking astatine a news conference, Bass said she had met pinch immoderate of nan workers.

"All of nan men that were successful that tunnel: rescued up, safe. We had an opportunity to speak pinch them. We had an opportunity to make judge they were capable to scope their family members," Bass said. "Their family members knew they were safe. There were galore anxious family members who were present waiting to make judge that their relatives were okay. We said pinch nan paramedics while nan paramedics examined nan men arsenic they came up. And I conscionable person to show you that we’re each blessed coming successful Los Angeles." 

From left, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, left, LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell, Congresswoman Nanette Barragan Los Angeles Council personnel Tim McOsker, astatine microphone, and Supervisor Janice Hahn return questions from nan media aft each nan workers who were trapped successful nan Wilmington passageway were retired and accounted, Wednesday, July 9, 2025, successful Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Bass praised first responders arsenic Los Angeles' "true heroes." 

LA City Councilmember Tim McOsker praised nan workers for keeping cool heads.

"This is simply a highly technical, difficult project. And they knew precisely what to do. They knew really to unafraid themselves," he said. "Thank goodness for nan bully group that were down successful nan tunnel."

This image taken from footage provided by KABC/ABC7 Los Angeles shows first responders moving nan segment aft a passageway collapsed connected Wednesday, July 9, 2025, successful Los Angeles. (KABC/ABC7 Los Angeles via AP)

The tunnel, being constructed almost wholly underneath nationalist right-of-way, is 18 feet wide and will beryllium 7 miles agelong to transportation treated wastewater from crossed Los Angeles County to nan Pacific Ocean.

The $700 cardinal task is being overseen by nan Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts.

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The cause of nan collapse is nether investigation. Authorities said activity will not resume until nan task contractor assesses what happened and deems nan tract safe.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.