A South East Cornwall fire crew came to the rescue of a little boy yesterday (Thursday) – after he got a child’s toilet seat stuck around his neck.
Though worried by two-year-old Flynn Edwards’ plight, his mother – Sarah Louise Edwards – was careful not to dial the emergency services number for help in case she held up responses to more urgent call-outs. She instead called the 101 helpline.
However, the Saltash fire brigade were happy to attend, and while resolving Flynn’s predicament to everyone’s satisfaction with the aid of ‘small tools’ and a ‘bit of force’, they also took the opportunity to show him around the cab of their fire engine.
Now his grandmother, Cornish Times reporter Christine Griffin, says that Flynn has become a star of the Saltash community fire station website.
Flynn is used to a bit of stardom, as he once featured on Irish television when a baby after his family were snowed in while on a visit to the Emerald Isle. His other grandma in Ireland had to walk through deep snow to come to the rescue with nappies as the family had run out.