Firefighters rescued boy trapped by toilet while admiring pretend hand-dryer

Firefighters had to rescue a little boy after he became trapped down the side of a toilet. Jamie Smart, five, managed to wedge himself into the tiny space in the downstairs loo at his family’s home in Sale, Greater Manchester.



He had gone into the bathroom to look at a pretend hand-dryer his parents had made for him so he could play at drying his hands, but became so absorbed he somehow slid into the gap between the toilet and the wall.

Parents Alison, 38, and Martin, 44, first removed the downstairs bathroom door, then the toilet seat and finally the toilet cistern. But with Jamie still stuck, they had no option but to call the fire service.



White watch from Sale fire station came to the rescue, with one firefighter lying on the floor to somehow twist Jamie free unharmed but for a few scrapes and bruises. Alison said: “It’s funny now but at the time he was screaming and really upset. We took off the door, then the toilet seat and cistern off and thought we were going to have to remove the whole toilet. In the end we called the fire service and they came straight out.''