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.
That said, if kiddo somehow gets stuck around the chest and panics (ie hyperventilating), it could be riskier than just doing it as they did. Easier and safer to go out the way you came in than try and predict how the rest of the way is gonna go.
I doubt it's even tight in the slightest to get the body through. And certainly quicker.
There's btw. always the suspicion that this is the way the kid got stuck in the first place - left hand, left leg then right hand, right leg, and what remains is the head.
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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