Two rescued from chocolate vat at Pennsylvania Mars Inc candy factory
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Firefighters from Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, extracted two people from a vat of chocolate after they had fallen in earlier on Thursday, a communications supervisor for Lancaster County said.
PennLive.com reported that the chocolate in the tank was about waist-high at the Mars Inc factory in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and that the people were unhurt but unable to get out on their own.
The trouble started around 1:51 p.m., the county official said. Officials did not say how the people became trapped in the chocolate vat.
Local TV station WHTM said that the first person was extracted at 3:10 p.m. and the second 15 minutes later.
(Reporting by Diane Bartz; Editing by David Gregorio)
