"He's no longer in the room. I was able to free him "As authorities arrive on the scene, the frantic mother is heard informing officers.
The mother, whose name has not been released, called 911 after she noticed her 14-month-old boy went missing at a Union, New Jersey, playground on Sept. 23 and found him inside of an exposed 7-foot deep manhole containing approximately 2 feet of sewer water. The waters were deep enough to reach the child's neck.
"Henry! Henry! Henry!" she is heard screaming as she called 911. "I need someone. I need someone to come. There's an open manhole."


But while she was on the call, she noticed that her boy began to drift away. She then jumped into the hole and grabbed the child before water could sweep him down a tunnel and into an underground area that would have been too small to access.
However, she saw that her son began to slip away while she was on the phone. She then dove into the hole and grabbed the infant before the water swept him down a tunnel and into an underground region that would have been impossible to reach.
"She put the phone down, leapt into the manhole, and was able to reach him before he got to a section of the sewer that was too narrow for her to enter into," said Union Fire Department Captain Anthony Schmidtberg.