Firefighters had to use equipment usually kept for cutting people out of car accidents to release a toddler with a tambourine stuck on her head today.
A fire crew from High Wycombe were called to Marlow Methodist Church, Spittal Street to release the musical instrument from the young girl's head just before 11am.
Crew manager Graham Danbury said: "I think she was about two years old at a play group in Marlow. She had been playing with a plastic round tambourine with a hole in the middle. It had obviously got over her head.
"Parents and members of staff tried to release it and her head had started to swell that's when they decided to call us. She was in a distressed state. We used hydraulic cutting gear normally used for cutting people out of road accidents. The poor girl took one look at it and started to cry again."
Mr Danbury described how the team put a towel covering her head to stop the tambourine shattering while they cut her free.
He added: "It was an unusual incident. I have never seen a tambourine on a head in the 12 years I have been doing the job. At the end of it, all worked out
2 comments:
wonder what kind of tune you would have gotten out of it with her head in it?...just askin'
I bet it's not much use now.
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