WHITMAN, MASSACHUSETTS (PLYMOUTH COUNTY) - Just after 1600 hours on the afternoon of Wednesday, April 10, 2024 the Whitman Fire Department received a call reporting a child stuck in a chimney at 143 Harvard Street. Ladder-246, C-3 and Ambulance-249 responded to the scene. Companies arrived to find a child stuck feet first into a chimney on the top of a 2-story wood framed dwelling. A box was struck for manpower due to the complexity of the incident. While the aerial was being put into place, firefighters raised ground and roof ladders to gain access to the child on the opposite side of the house. Firefighters met the child simultaneously at the chimney. Both firefighters were able to lift the child up and out of the chimney and put him on the tip of the aerial. Both firefighters then slowly brought the child down the ladder, eventually to the arms of his very anxious father. The ambulance crew checked out the child, but transport was not required. The child was apparently home with his brother when he decided to climb out of a second floor dormer window and onto the roof. He then scaled the steep pitched room and hoisted himself up and into the chimney. Shortly after arrival at this scene, Whitman firefighters were alerted to a reported motorcycle accident at the intersection of Harvard Street and School Street. An additional ambulance and engine responded to the scene with call-back personnel. No injuries were reported at that scene.
