Trapped Between the Bars: Dramatic Rescue on the Sixth Floor

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A 14-year-old girl became stuck in the gap between the window of her apartment and the bars on the sixth floor, the top floor, of a building in Modiin Illit. The girl became stuck in the narrow gap when the apartment door was locked and there was no way to reach her from inside. Firefighters were dispatched for the rescue from the Binyamin station.

Firefighters arrived at the scene with a cherry picker, sawed through the bars at a great height and lifted the girl onto the picker. The girl was lowered to the ground safely. The rescue lasted several hours on one day, with no injuries reported.

The girl is a resident of the building where she became stuck, and she was freed from the gap between the window and the bars without injury. The firefighters explained that the bars were sawed to allow her to be removed from the narrow, high location.