Firefighters on Friday afternoon were searching for anyone who might have been caught inside a tunnel used as a homeless campsite after it partially collapsed in Sacramento’s River District.
The California Highway Patrol was out Friday conducting abatement enforcement in the area along Bercut Drive, east of Interstate 5 and about 100 yards north of Summit Tunnel Avenue, said Capt. Justin Sylvia, a spokesperson for the Sacramento Fire Department.
Sylvia said they found an estimated 30-foot-long tunnel with two entrances that was partially collapsed, apparently from recent rainfall. He said homeless people living in the area told authorities that a man in his 30s had been living in the tunnel, but they were not sure if he was inside when the tunnel collapsed…