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Missing patient rescued from garbage truck
Healthcare Security Weekly, April 11, 2005
A missing hospital patient was pulled safely out of a garbage truck just moments after a bystander watched the trash compacted, according to The News Tribune in Tacoma, WA.
A witness saw what he thought to be a pair of legs in the garbage truck last Wednesday, but was unable to alert the driver before the trash was compacted.
Central Pierce Fire & Rescue rigged a rope on a fire truck and pulled the 28-year-old out from the top-loading truck.
Police initially believed the man was homeless and had slept in a garbage bin. He was later identified and returned to Western State Hospital in Olympia, WA.
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