Woman Rescued from Playground Sink Hole

FORT DRUM, N.Y. (AP) — A playground at Fort Drum in northern New York is closed after a youth center worker fell into a sink hole while checking to see if the ground was safe for children. Elene Nemergut says she spotted a depression in the middle of the playground Thursday while watching a group of 3- to 5-year-olds at the Child Youth Development Center. She says she was jumping on the spot to test it when the ground gave way. The 35-year-old was buried up to her knees in mulch in a 6-foot-deep hole. Fort Drum firefighters pulled her from the hole. She was treated at a local clinic for ankle and shoulder pain. Officials say there is a storm sewer where the sink hole formed and that Nemergut landed on the pipe, which prevented her from falling farther.