Man spends night trapped in sewer hole

A worker was rescued after falling down a sewer hole in a Uniondale parking lot overnight Tuesday. The victim, identfied as Joe Hranicka, fell some 25 feet into the hole off of Jerusalem Avenue and waited there for about eight hours before he was pulled out. "He was in for quite an ordeal," Nassau Detective Lieutenant Kevin Smith said. "Overnight, alone, no cell phone, I would imagine, or if he had it, he probably lost it. In that dark hole all night long." Smith said Hranicka was doing his job sweeping the parking lot when he came upon a piece of plywood. "And being a good worker, he moved it out of the way so he could clean that part of the street," Smith said.