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Baltimore County Fire Dept. rescues man trapped in sand hopper

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UPDATE: (3:30 pm): The Fire Department says the man has been freed from the sand as of 3:24 pm, and now crews are working to get him down.

They were called to Atlantic Concrete MD just after 1 pm, and found a man stuck in the sand hopper, about 75 feet up.

He was buried to his waist in the sand.
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ORIGINAL (2:15 pm): Emergency responders were working to rescue a person trapped inside an elevated sand hopper on the 10,800 block of Beaver Dam Road in Cockeysville on Friday afternoon.

As of just after 2 p.m., the extrication was still underway, according to the Baltimore County Fire Department.

A medevac had been requested, and emergency responders from Baltimore City were on their way to help.

This story is developing and will be updated as more details become available.

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