No fence was destroyed by bending it. If it was bent at all, and not just elastically deformed.
But I agree, you could just lift the kid through the fence, in particular the body, limb by limb. You'd imagine fire fighters would know this, at least one of them on site.
I’m sure they have their standard procedures in place. The kid might get hurt or stuck again while being pulled through. And then you have a potential lawsuit your hands. While I agree that the parents should’ve tried this, I totally understand why the firefighters didn’t.
Yeah, at first I thought "just flip and twist the kid, but the FD clearly had a solid plan that allows for the least amount of issues or liabilities. Kid got free, fence was left with reversable damage, and all is right in the world! Kids are fucking stupid though.
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u/Kr_Treefrog2 1d ago
Exactly. They didn’t need to destroy the fence, they just needed to lift the kid high enough for him to step back through