Woman is freed from pipe at closed power plant
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Pennsylvania state police are investigating how a woman became trapped in a drainpipe at a closed power plant.
Emergency crews in Greene County were called to FirstEnergy's now-shuttered Hatfield Power Plant in Carmichaels on Monday morning.
Trooper Forrest Allison says a worker was about to drain a pond on the property into the nearby Monongahela (muh-NAHN'-guh-hee-luh) River when he heard the woman shouting from the drainpipe below.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Allison says "if he had turned on the valves, all the water would have rushed to where she was."
Crews helped the 39-year-old Greene County resident out. She was taken to a hospital for treatment of unspecified injuries.
Allison says it's unclear how the woman ended up in the pipe, and police are investigating.