Buried Kids Father 911 Call Released

Jordan Arwood, the father of a little girl buried and killed under 25 feet of dirt while playing with her cousin desperately pleaded with authorities to hurry after he witnessed the accident last night, according to a newly-released 911 call. The call was released hours after workers have recovered the bodies of six-year-old Chloe Jade Arwood and seven-year-old James Levi Caldwell, who were buried alive under dirt at a construction site in North Carolina on Sunday afternoon.

“Please hurry … My children are buried under tons of dirt … They’re buried under tons of clay … It fell on top of them,” he said sobbing.

When the dispatcher asked him if he could see the children, Arwood said he couldn’t.

“The entire wall collapsed on them. Get a crane. Get a bulldozer. Get anything you can, please,” he said. “There’s no way they can breathe.”

“Lord lift this dirt up off these children … so the children will be alive and well … I have to get my kids. Lord, please,” the father prayed on the phone.

It was no secret that Arwood was digging a two-story deep hole. Neighbors said it wasn’t unusual to see children in the pit when the girl’s father was working there.

Arwood said that he was building the structure to “protect his family” – it was going to be a bunker.