--- description: Teen gets stuck in sewer hole after cell phone fell into it. title: Teen Gets Stuck in Storm Drain Trying to Retrieve Cell Phone [PHOTOS] image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Teen Gets Stuck in Storm Drain Trying to Retrieve Cell Phone  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Apr 3, 2014 8:02 PM CUT  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Apr 3, 2014 8:02 PM CUT Firefighters in Dover, England, rescued a woman who accidentally dropped her phone in a storm drain Wednesday and got stuck inside while trying to retrieve it, Kent Online [reports](http://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/girl-rescued-from-storm-drain-15266/ "undefined"). The 16-year-old Ella Birchenough asked a passerby to alert her mother, who lives in a home nearby. Witness [told Kent Online](http://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/girl-rescued-from-storm-drain-15266/ "undefined") that she was laughing and joking the entire time. Firefighter rescued the girl, who was”uninjured,” [according to](http://ht.ly/vm2El "undefined") Kent Fire & Rescue Service’s website. DOVER update: A girl who got stuck in a drain had dropped her phone through the grate, and climbed in to retrieve it. [pic.twitter.com/g8QwrziB66](http://t.co/g8QwrziB66 "undefined") — Kent 999s (@Kent\_999s) [April 3, 2014](https://twitter.com/Kent%5F999s/status/451652193318232064?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw "undefined") DOVER update: Firefighters freeing teen from drain in Eaves Road today. Cover may have been missing, and she fell in. [pic.twitter.com/JNZZRQoRya](http://t.co/JNZZRQoRya "undefined") — Kent 999s (@Kent\_999s) [April 2, 2014](https://twitter.com/Kent%5F999s/status/451462375846076416?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw "undefined") Do you love your phone enough to chase it down a storm drain? (h/t [Uproxx](http://www.uproxx.com/up/2014/04/teen-cell-phone-sewer/ "undefined")) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/48777/teen-gets-stuck-in-storm-drain-trying-to-retrieve-cell-phone/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/48777/teen-gets-stuck-in-storm-drain-trying-to-retrieve-cell-phone/"},"headline":"Teen Gets Stuck in Storm Drain Trying to Retrieve Cell Phone","datePublished":"2014-04-03T20:02:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:29.171Z","description":"She was not injured","url":"https://time.com/48777/teen-gets-stuck-in-storm-drain-trying-to-retrieve-cell-phone/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/48777/teen-gets-stuck-in-storm-drain-trying-to-retrieve-cell-phone/","name":"Teen Gets Stuck in Storm Drain Trying to Retrieve Cell Phone"}}]}] ```