Frantic Man Claims Dozen Family Members Trapped in Garbage Truck

Emergency crews combed through piles of garbage for about two hours Thursday after a man jumped out of a garbage truck yelling that his sisters were trapped inside the hauler.

Luckily, Anne Arundel County authorities say, no one else was ultimately found in the garbage truck.

Garbage crews picked up trash from curbsides in Langley Park Thursday morning, and took them to the Waste Management facility in Jessup. WJLA reports that when workers started to dump the truck’s load, a man jumped up from underneath piles of garbage and began screaming for the operators to stop because his sisters were in the load of trash.

Anne Arundel County fire and rescue personnel joined Waste Management staffers in the fruitless search.

A total of 60 firefighters from Baltimore Washington Airport, Howard County and Anne Arundel County took part in the hunt, the Capital-Gazette reports.

The man said between 10 and 14 of his family members might be in trash that was taken to the landfill, Fire Department Spokesman Russ Davies told the newspaper.

The man was taken to Baltimore Washington Medical Center with minor injuries, Davies said on Twitter.