Firefighters free man from treadmill

Eight New Zealand firefighters and an ambulance crew went to a man's aid after he got stuck in a treadmill. The man, aged in his 60s, got his hands caught in the machine when he was moving it from one room to the next.

"It was definitely one of the more unusual jobs I've been to,'' Palmerston North fire service officer Royce Tatham said. ''It wasn't your usual run-of-the-mill stuff.''



The man was freed after fire crews unbolted the pivot point and moved to back to release his hand.

He was stuck for 10 minutes before the crews arrived and had been able to free one hand himself. The man suffered a minor cut and was lucky he did not have worse injuries, Mr Tatham said.