A contractor renovating Ashbridge House in Rosemont recently uncovered a 200-year-old underground cistern while working on ...

According to the Ogden Police Department, first responders were called to a home Thursday afternoon for a report of a woman trapped in a well. They found a 66-year-old woman trapped in an old cistern.

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When the 66-year-old woman fell eight feet into a cistern, rescuers were close by and responded in record time, according to the Spencerport Fire District. Chief Mitch Flagg said it was a team ...

OGDEN, N.Y. — A 66-year-old woman was rescued from a well inside a house on Spencerport Road in Ogden on Tuesday afternoon. Ogden police, along with Spencerport firefighters and a Gates ...

After a puppy fell into an old underground cistern, firefighters were called to the rescue. Through the combined efforts of several Platoon 1 crews, the small dog was saved.

When, in 2002, archaeologists Mary Ann Levine and James Delle’s crew of student excavators broke through the roof of an old cistern in the courtyard of a house belonging to one of 19th-century ...

Turkish authorities have sealed off a luxury spa run by a five-star Istanbul hotel that was set up by illegally modifying a 1,500-year-old cistern, officials said recently. The Navitas Spa Sarnic ...

While none of Istanbul’s other cisterns draws the kind of crowds as ... employee discovered a trapdoor inside a lavish, 200-year-old Roman palace, Villa Torlonia. Beneath it, a brick staircase ...

This opening was one of the ancient fire cisterns, constructed at various points in the business district and which were supplied from water that drained off the roofs of the business houses.

The area surrounding the hole was secured with safety barriers. Engineers discovered an old cistern was uncovered as heavy machinery dug deeper. Over time, that cistern compromised the sub-surface ...