An Amazon delivery man is lucky to be alive after he got trapped in a septic tank sinkhole 13 feet underground.
Charles Amicangelo was delivering a package to a home in Apple Valley, California, when he noticed a hole in the ground as he approached a customer's property.
Amicangelo avoided the hole at first, but while walking back to his truck the ground suddenly gave out and he found himself being sucked into a sinkhole.
"Even though I kept a bit of a distance from the hole, I still managed to fall in because of the ground collapsing under my feet," he told Fox News.
Efforts to get himself out only made the situation worse.
"I tried using these roots around me to get out [but] it just pulled more dirt on top of me," he said in a TikTok video, chronicling the ordeal. "I just called dispatch, so hopefully, they are going to get the cops or the fire department here because I definitely don't want to try climbing out on my own again."
Another video showed Amicangelo was standing in knee-deep "sludge" while waiting for rescuers to arrive.
"I don't really want to die in somebody's... whatever you call these things. I can't even think right now," he said.
Crews managed to stabilize the ground, and then dropped a ladder down to him.
"The fire department showed up, the police showed up, an ambulance showed up and a... helicopter showed up all for me," Amicangelo said. "The fire chief told me that that was a dangerous situation I was in and I probably didn't realize how dangerous it was, because when he got there he said 'Don't move.'"
Amicangelo climbed out, then rushed home to take a shower. Instead of calling it a day, he went right back to work delivering packages, telling Fox News he was taught to always accomplish his mission in the Marine Corps.
"Another big thing is that had I not completed my route or attempted to at least - other drivers who had already been out there and done their entire routes would get stuck having to finish my route," he said. "And I just didn't think that would be fair to them either. But I did voluntarily offer to take my route."
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