A nine-year-old wanted to save a frog in Großgmain in Salzburg. When he released the animal near a pond, the boy himself urgently needed help. The young amphibian friend sank waist-deep in mud. The fire brigade and helicopter arrived and freed the boy from his plight.
“Child is about to sink!” This emergency call did not leave even hard-boiled rescuers cold. A heartbroken mother called the Großgmain fire brigade shortly after 6 p.m. on Monday for help. Her nine-year-old son was trapped in a pond in the municipality of Flachgau and was unable to free himself.
When the fire brigade arrived after a few minutes, the boy was already up to his navel in mud. His efforts to free him had made the situation worse.
Rescued with ladder and shovel
The volunteers didn’t waste a second, they did the right thing. “We immediately grabbed a ladder and shovel,” reports Florian Harald of the fire brigade.
Boy’s fine, just hypothermic
Even before the emergency helicopter had landed, the firefighters reached the boy and rescued him in no time. Escape rescuer Gerald Reichholf: “The boy was doing reasonably well. We took him to the hospital with his mother in hypothermia.”
Boys wanted to save frog
Incidentally, the boy may have gotten into this predicament because he and a friend previously rescued a frog. When the nine-year-old wanted to release the animal at the pond, he suddenly couldn’t move forward or backward. The many heat-induced mud should have been fatal.
Source: Krone
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