An Arizona man, who broke into an aquatic center, died early morning on Monday after he was trapped in a support structure for a water slide for more than an hour. Police said they have a hard time to locate the 32-year-old man.

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According to the police officer who was patrolling the area near the Eldorado Aquatic and Fitness Center in Scottsdale, he heard a faint voice calling for help at around 12:20 a.m.

Sgt. Brian Reynolds realized that after 15 minutes, the calls were coming from the inside of the aquatic center.

In a news conference, police spokesman Kevin Watts said it took an hour for the police to pinpoint the location of the man inside the aquatic center.

Reynolds said the pipe, where the man was found, is in an expansive outdoor area, and so it acted in effect like a megaphone. He noted that this made it difficult at first to locate the man's location.

Based on the initial investigation, the man entered the locked facility by climbing over a high fence and then crawling inside the large cylindrical steel center support for the water slide. Unfortunately, he got trapped in the support structure.

"It wasn't an easy feat. It took some work to get down in there, which obviously would not be the first place that people would be looking to find someone because of the difficulty," said Watts in a report of NBC News.

Police officers and firefighters tried to help the man get out of the structure immediately. They were in contact with him for an hour and a half until he became unresponsive.

At around 2:18 a.m, the man was declared dead. It took several hours for the police officers and firefighters to dismantle the structure to get the man's body out.

Police said the man had been identified, but his name was being withheld pending notification of next of kin.