This is a new one. A little girl was recently trapped inside a gun safe for at an Academy Sports and Outdoors store in Denton, Texas. Firefighters managed to get the girl out safely despite concerns that she wasn’t getting enough oxygen.
The little girl didn’t know a growing crowd was rooting for her safety as Denton firefighters pried open a gun safe she had been trapped in for more than 30 minutes Tuesday evening.
Thankfully, the story had a happy ending. She was safe, uninjured and didn’t even seem upset after her dramatic rescue at the Academy Sports and Outdoors store in the 2600 block of West University Drive. Fire officials said the girl was either 4 or 5 years old.
Kenneth Hedges, a fire department spokesman, said firefighters received the emergency call at 6:42 p.m. Tuesday and arrived at the Academy store at 6:52 p.m. It’s unclear exactly how long the girl had been in the safe before the emergency call, Hedges said.
“This is a very specialized incident, and you don’t get these very often,” he said.
Firefighters were initially concerned the girl wasn’t getting enough oxygen in the safe, which was on display at the front of the store. But she didn’t appear to be under any stress while she was communicating with her mother from inside, Hedges said.
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