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Colo. FFs rescue man trapped for 8 hours between walls

Greeley firefighters used a ladder, rope and pike pole to rescue a man wedged between a church wall and a dumpster alcove

By Brooke Baitinger
The Bradenton Herald

GREELEY, Colo. — A man was trapped in a narrow space between walls for about eight hours in Colorado, rescuers said.

Firefighters with the Greeley Fire Department didn’t provide information on how he might have ended up in the predicament but said he became trapped around 7 p.m. on April 9, the department wrote in an April 15 post on Facebook.

Firefighters got him out around 3 a.m. the next day, officials said in the post.

They arrived to find him trapped in the narrow space between a church wall and a dumpster alcove pushed up against it, rescuers said.

Photos show him stuck in the narrow opening as firefighters determine how to free him.

Using a 24-foot ladder and a rope lowered around the patient’s shoulder, they got him back into a standing position with a “coordinated pull,” rescuers said.

Once he was upright, firefighters used a pike pole to guide him out of the confined space, rescuers said. He was taken to a hospital for treatment.

“Poor guy!” someone said in the comments. “I am sure that was scary!”

Greeley is about a 65-mile drive northeast from Denver.

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