13-Year-Old Boy Trapped in a Sewer Pipe for 12 Hours Describes His Harrowing Ordeal

Immersed 11 feet underground in Los Angeles's sewer pipeline system, 13-year-old Jesse Hernandez prayed he would survive.

"I was just praying to God to help me and to not die," he told NBC News, speaking publicly for the first time after he was rescued following 12 hours trapped in a sewer pipe.

He couldn't see anything down there, he said. It was dark and quiet as he griped onto the sewage pipe, leaving handprints behind. "I was scared," he told NBC News.

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