Firefighters help toddler with arm stuck in 'Thomas the Tank Engine' toy

Thursday, August 16, 2018
DANBURY, Connecticut -- First responders in Connecticut were called to help a toddler after he got his arm stuck in a "Thomas the Tank Engine" toy.

Firefighters with the Danbury Fire Department arrived to discover the 2-year-old got his arm stuck in the smoke stack of the toy.
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They said the young boy was calm and brave, but they could not get his arm out of the toy.

Firefighters decided to dismantle the toy, but what seemed like a simple solution at first became more complicated when they discovered the tube was a launcher for shooting a ball.

After 20 minutes of dismantling the toy, the rescuers realized the child had a bracelet that got caught on a gear mechanism of the launcher.
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They were eventually able to free the child from the toy and he went back to playing with his other toys.

He was not injured.
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