'A city underground': Woman rescued from sewer in LA may have been living underground

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LOS ANGELES - A woman who was rescued from a manhole, may have been living in the sewer.

Community members say thousands of homeless living in LA are seeking shelter underground.

"Those are the ones people make into a complete living room. They’ll have TV, electricity because they’ll connect to what’s down there. There are plugs. It’s a city underground, that’s what it is," said Dave Matthews, a volunteer with the Harbor Gateway Chamber of Commerce.

On the corner of Normandy and 190th in Harbor Gateway , just off the 405 Freeway, city workers covered a storm drain after a 39-year-old woman fell 20 feet down.

The woman told firefighters she had been screaming in agony for an entire day before a Walmart employee heard her cries and called 911.

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