Firefighters rescue toddler after mother is locked out of apartment
Translated from Lithuanian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- Firefighters in Plungė reached a fourth-floor apartment through a balcony after its exterior door shut and locked the mother outside.
- The operation began after authorities received a report that the woman’s 1½-year-old child was inside.
- Firefighters opened the apartment from within, and the child was not injured.
Firefighters in Plungė used ropes to descend from a roof to a fourth-floor balcony after a mother found herself locked out of her apartment with her 1½-year-old child inside.
The woman waited in the stairwell and told firefighters that the apartment door had slammed shut. A window was partly open, allowing the rescue team to choose a route through the balcony.
Firefighters lowered themselves from the roof, entered the apartment and unlocked the door from inside so the mother could get in. The operation succeeded, and the child was unharmed.
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Originally published by Delfi in Lithuanian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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