Workers set up a tripod and other equipment on the deck before lowering a firefighter into the well at 11:11 a.m.
The firefighter reported feeling something but wasn’t sure what. Firefighters lowered a different person into the well at 11:45 a.m.
About 12:15 p.m., two large trucks arrived with suction equipment for draining 9 feet of water from the well to make sure nothing is there.
A tipster told police that the home had a well, police said. Searching it “was the prudent thing to do,” said Capt. Steve Young, a police spokesman.
The house has been empty for several years, neighbors say, and has become an eyesore. It long has been covered with vines, branches and overgrowth.
It was only in the last several weeks that a crew arrived to clear off that overgrowth.
“That’s how bad it was,” said Walt Roseburrough, a resident of the neighborhood since 1966. “You could have driven by the house and not even known it was there.”
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