North Carolina Child Rescued After Being Trapped in Mud for Hours

The 12-year-old boy had been riding his bicycle around a new construction site in Lillington when he sunk in about five feet of mud

A child in North Carolina was rescued after falling into multiple feet of mud on Nov. 3.

Per WNCN, the sinkhole happened at a sediment pond in a new construction site in Lillington on Day Song Court. An unidentified 12-year-old boy had been riding his bike in the area when he fell into the hole.

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According to The News & Observer, officials revealed that he was stuck in the hole for almost three hours before his yells for help were heard by other children, who then got the attention of his mom.

After his mom called 911, multiple agencies responded to the incident, including the Lillington and Summerville Bunnlevel fire departments, Harnett County Fire Marshal’s Office, Emergency Management, county EMS, and the Lillington Police Department, per WNCN.

WNCN reported that first responders were called to the incident at 6:16 p.m. and that he was rescued around 7:11 p.m. The boy had sunk about five feet and was taken to a nearby hospital after he told first responders that he "wasn't hurt, but felt cold," according to Inside Edition.

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While his condition remains unknown, the news organization reports that he was taken "to be evaluated by medical staff." PEOPLE has contacted Lillington Fire Department and Lillington Police Department for comment.

According to the United States Geological Survey, sinkholes "are common where the rock below the land surface is limestone, carbonate rock, salt beds, or rocks that can naturally be dissolved by groundwater circulating through them." They can also be human-induced and form when water-drainage patterns are changed.

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"Some sinkholes form when the land surface is changed, such as when industrial and runoff-storage ponds are created. The substantial weight of the new material can trigger an underground collapse of supporting material, thus causing a sinkhole," the agency explains on its website.

The United States Geological Survey adds that most sinkhole damage tends to occur in the states of Alabama, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Texas.

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