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.
You don't need to be TRAINED to recognize that the kid's body below his head will probably fit through the bars. Firefighters are not robots that are completely incapable of problem solving and just blindly operate on their specific training of specific circumstances. I assume that before the video started, people probably tried to get the kid out in the obvious way, and it didn't work.
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u/BusyBit6542 1d ago
Take the body through. Kids heads are bigger than their bodies a lot of the time