Woman describes harrowing ordeal after falling in well

Alberta woman falls in well An Alberta woman said she thought she was going to die, after she fell in a well northeast of Edmonton.

A Redwater woman hopes an open well will be covered up, after she fell in, and struggled for hours to pull herself out.

Trieva McBeth said she was walking her dog Loki in a rural area near Highway 643, and while in a secluded area, she fell into an open well that had been obscured by tall grass.

McBeth said she plummeted down the seven foot well – and hoped a passing driver would come to her rescue, but nobody did.

“I never want to have to scream like that again,” McBeth said.

She told CTV News she could see the sky above darkening, and she knew she had to get out before the weather turned.

“I couldn’t get a grip with my feet and I’d just slip right back down, and every time I fell right down was when I came close to actual panic,” McBeth said.

Finally, she was able to use a nylon rope that was tied to a cement block to pull herself out.

“It was as tall as my hands could reach, I could never do that in the gym, I could never do a pull up,” McBeth said.

The whole incident played out over about four hours – and she hopes the well gets covered so the same thing doesn’t happen to someone else.

Sturgeon County said efforts are being made to contact the owner of the land.

As for McBeth, she suffered some scrapes and bruises – she’s in pain and struggles to move – but she’s grateful the outcome of her ordeal wasn’t worse.

With files from Angela Jung