Woman rescued from Pennsylvanian ATM
June 3rd, 2011 - 7:31 pm ICT by Aishwarya BhattPennsylvania, June 3 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Emergency workers in Pennsylvania got a strange call telling them that a woman has got her hand stuck in an automated teller machine (ATM). According to the details of the incident that happened on Monday, the woman was trying to get money out of the machine when her hand got stuck.
When the rescue team got to the place, the woman still had her hand trapped in the machine. They used equipments to free the hand of the woman. Reports say the woman was not hurt in the incident. The woman was using the ATM machine at the First Commonwealth bank in Robinson, Allegheny County.
The Moon Run Fire Department responded to the call. The chief of the firefighters told reporters that they had to use the special equipments to get the woman’s hand out of the machine. The bank also expressed its gratitude that the woman was not badly hurt in the incident.
This is not the first time that the Moon Run Fire Department has received an unusual call. Last December, the rescuers were called to a shopping mall to get a child who had climbed on a toy machine down. Fortunately, in both cases no one was seriously injured.
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