SENT SPIRALING

Firefighters Cut Open Kids’ Playground Slide to Pull Out 40-Year-Old Man Inside

It was a hot day and the man was in “extreme discomfort.”

Firefighters endured a weird call out that saw them slice open a children’s tube slide with a 40-year-old man stuck inside it. Connecticut responders were called out to an elementary school in Vernon at around 4:30 p.m. Officials from the ​​Town of Vernon Fire Department said the man had tried to bend at the waist to make it down the slide, leading to a shocking stop that saw him become “wedged feet and head first down the slide and stuck in the middle portion.” Temperatures at the unusual scene were high, but despite the man’s uncomfortable position, there was reportedly little to be done beyond inserting ventilation for him and cutting the slide open, a process said to have taken around 30 minutes. The man has not been named but is understood to have been in “extreme discomfort” throughout. Images show teams of specialists eventually pulling the man, in camouflage shorts and a maroon t-shirt, free of the spiral tube. “While this is a unique call for service for the fire department, the professionalism shown on scene was exemplary,” the service said in a Facebook post.