Marine
01-02-2003, 6:52pm
A teenager who got her head stuck in a cat flap was just one of the eccentric emergencies which fire crews dealt with in 2002.
Firefighters countywide said handcuffs were the worst hazards.
And they say they still get the odd case of children getting pans stuck on their heads and youngsters stuck in railings.
They also revealed that one of their oddest call-outs was from a man wanting them to remove a ring which had become stuck fast on an intimate part of his body.
Fireman Ian Angrave, based at Wigston fire station, said: "We had a handcuff job a couple of weeks ago. "The lady was a little embarrassed when she came into the station with her boyfriend. She had the cuffs on and they had obviously been up to something."
From August to October, county firefighters dealt with 20 stuck rings on fingers, 45 lift breakdowns and 37 animals that needed rescuing - all up on the previous year.
Mr Angrave said: "Red Watch had an interesting call-out at around 3am a couple of weeks ago after a young lady arrived home drunk and didn't want to wake her mum and dad.
"She tried to get in through the back door cat flap and got stuck.
"We also had a little boy with his head stuck in the railings of a school gate and another stuck in a chair at a nursery in Countesthorpe."
One Coalville firefighter, who did not want to be named, recalled a little boy who managed to cuff his hands together. When asked where he got them, he told the firefighters: "On top of my mother's wardrobe."
Sub-officer John Greasley, at Hinckley fire station, remembered an eyewatering story three weeks ago of a man with a ring stuck on a delicate part of his body.
Fire crews were called to Leicester Royal Infirmary to carry out the agonising cutting procedure. But, as Mr Angrave says, most people see the funny side. He added: "Sometimes people are in distress so we have to have a bit of decorum while we're helping them.
"But if it's not too serious you can laugh about it afterwards."
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Firefighters countywide said handcuffs were the worst hazards.
And they say they still get the odd case of children getting pans stuck on their heads and youngsters stuck in railings.
They also revealed that one of their oddest call-outs was from a man wanting them to remove a ring which had become stuck fast on an intimate part of his body.
Fireman Ian Angrave, based at Wigston fire station, said: "We had a handcuff job a couple of weeks ago. "The lady was a little embarrassed when she came into the station with her boyfriend. She had the cuffs on and they had obviously been up to something."
From August to October, county firefighters dealt with 20 stuck rings on fingers, 45 lift breakdowns and 37 animals that needed rescuing - all up on the previous year.
Mr Angrave said: "Red Watch had an interesting call-out at around 3am a couple of weeks ago after a young lady arrived home drunk and didn't want to wake her mum and dad.
"She tried to get in through the back door cat flap and got stuck.
"We also had a little boy with his head stuck in the railings of a school gate and another stuck in a chair at a nursery in Countesthorpe."
One Coalville firefighter, who did not want to be named, recalled a little boy who managed to cuff his hands together. When asked where he got them, he told the firefighters: "On top of my mother's wardrobe."
Sub-officer John Greasley, at Hinckley fire station, remembered an eyewatering story three weeks ago of a man with a ring stuck on a delicate part of his body.
Fire crews were called to Leicester Royal Infirmary to carry out the agonising cutting procedure. But, as Mr Angrave says, most people see the funny side. He added: "Sometimes people are in distress so we have to have a bit of decorum while we're helping them.
"But if it's not too serious you can laugh about it afterwards."
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