Two workers died in Boston on Friday afternoon after a water main break flooded the trench where they were working, according to the Boston Fire Dept.

一位消防局发言人说，消防员在下午12:56被派往该地点，这很快成为了恢复行动。下午4点，发言人说：“这仍然是一个持续的事件，我们仍在努力追回两名受害者。”

The workers reportedly punctured a water main before being trapped in a 12-to-15-ft deep trench as it quickly filled with water. “Workers were in the ground and the water let go,” the spokesman said. “How or why remains to be determined.”

As emergency responders descended on the scene, water was removed with a large vacuum before a trench box was lowered to secure the walls to prevent the trench from collapsing, the spokesman said.

毗邻工作地点的药店的所有者加里·艾因德勒（Gary Einsidler）在下午1:06看到水从街上流下。他说：“水从洞里出来。”“我看到一个工人从孔中弄湿了，所有的人都惊慌失措，每个人都在四处奔跑。”

One of Einsidler’s employees said workers then tried to take a backhoe to knock off the metal plate that was partially covering the hole because water was filling the hole.

Einsidler said “then all hell broke loose” as emergency responders arrived on the scene.