A 12-year-old girl walking to school Tuesday morning fell down an open sewer drain and was stuck there for about an hour before a man walking by heard her cries for help.
Grace Knox, a student at Southside Elementary School, was screaming for her mother when firefighters from Engine 25 arrived on South Legion Drive between Rutland and Melrose Streets, at about 8:30 a.m., according to Capt. Daniel O'Leary of the Buffalo Fire Department.
Grace fell about 12 feet down into the sewer where there was about a foot of running water, fire officials said.