A fire call with a difference
PA Dunedin Cats up trees, kids on cliffs, hands stuck in grates — the Fire Service gets them all. But in Dunedin yesterday there was one with a difference, a baby with her head through a plastic toilet trainer seat Beth Parker, aged 23 months, thought the new seat looked more like a hat and plonked it on her head. It slipped past her ears. In spite of the best efforts of her mother, Mrs
Lisa Parker, of Wellington, and her grandmother, Mrs Sandra Morris, the “100 collar” could not be removed. A call to a doctor’s surgery resulted in the plea for help going to the Fire Service. With little Beth wailing in fright, the firemen headed for the scene with sirens sounding. Mrs Morris said Beth fell silent at the sight of the firemen, who had the seat off in no time with the aid of a hacksaw.
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Press, 12 September 1987, Page 6
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