Illinois girl rescued after falling through grate

Published September 19, 2014 5:02pm ET



PLAINFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Emergency crews rescued a 12-year-old girl Friday after she fell through a grate and became trapped in a 10-foot hole outside a school in northeastern Illinois.

The girl was running laps near a retention pond during a gym class at Ira Jones Middle School in Plainfield, about 35 miles southwest of Chicago, when a grate she ran over gave way.

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