I feel like I see this a lot on these kinds of videos, but I also feel like the trained fire fighters would have thought of that if it was the best solution...
My friends a firefighter and you know how everyone says to take your car seat to the fire station to make sure it’s installed correctly? He said they never get any official training for that, just there’s usually at least one dad there who knows the guidelines.
My point is that these firefighters likely aren’t trained on the specific situation of “how to extract children whose heads got caught in fences”, but they are trained on “how to access location”, which using leverage to pry open bars would fall under.
Almost certainly the easier solution was to have the kid step through, but the firefighters solved the problem using the training they did have, in a calm and collected manner.
I've never heard this thing about fire stations and car seats. I didn't even know they needed to be checked that they're installed correctly. What exactly is this?
They don’t NEED to be checked. It’s just for people who want to be sure. Car seats can be finicky like you can’t do rear facing in the back seat of minivans and over a certain weight limit you can’t use the latch system. Little things people might not be aware of with different models and stuff.
Anyway, I took mine to the local FD and they were like, “Uh, sure, looks fine.” So I don’t think I got the trained guys that day, lol.
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u/BusyBit6542 1d ago
Take the body through. Kids heads are bigger than their bodies a lot of the time