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Headline: Boy Gets Stuck In Thomas The Tank Engine

Caption: A two-year-old boy got his arm stuck in Thomas the Tank Engine. On Wednesday (15 Aug), Danbury Fire Department in Connecticut were called to a report of a child with his hand lodged down the toy train's smoke stack. After dismantling the plastic character the crew discovered a bracelet worn by the child had become caught on an internal mechanism. Danbury FD explain: "As part of our daily mission, the Danbury Fire Department is called upon to rescue our citizens from various situations they may encounter. One scenario our fire personnel train for is referred to as "Man In Machine" calls, where a person may be trapped with a limb stuck in a machine such as a lawn mower or snow blower. Our personnel did a modification of that type of rescue which we will call "Tot in Toy"! Early this morning our Rescue 1 personnel under the direction of Lt Jonathan DeJoseph, were sent to a call to rescue a child with his hand stuck. "Upon arrival, Rescue 1 found that a two year old had stuck his arm into the smoke stack of a large "Thomas the Tank Engine" toy and it was now stuck. The brave and very calm two year old, did not seem injured, but could not back his arm out of the toy. After a few attempts to back the arm out failed, the firefighters decided to dismantle the Tank Engine toy and free the arm. While this initially seemed simple, once the crew removed the undercarriage of the train, they realised that the tube the child’s arm was stuck in was actually some sort of 'launcher' for shooting a ball. After about twenty minutes of dismantling, his arm was freed, he was uninjured, and went back to playing with other toys. It was found that the child had a bracelet on that had gotten caught on the gear mechanism of the 'launcher'."

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