Baby Trapped Halfway Between Elevator and Hallway Rescued by Firefighters in China

A 19-month-old baby in Hefei, in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui, was rescued by firefighters on September 24, after becoming stuck in an elevator.

According to the national fire service’s Weibo profile, the baby was suspended upside down in the elevator, in a building on Tongcheng Road, with its head hanging out over the shaft and its body inside the elevator car.

CCTV footage posted on Weibo shows the elevator begin to move as the mother and child, on a small electric vehicle, attempt to get out. The child then becomes trapped. Credit: China Fire Department via Storyful