Fire department rescues man stuck in tube in Kansas City’s Northland
Fire department personnel rescued a man from a tube in Kansas City’s Northland on Thursday after a device the man had been attached to failed.
The Kansas City Fire Department was called to the 7600 block of Northwest 144th Street at 1:25 p.m. to assist with a confined space rescue, Battalion Chief Riley Nolan, a spokesperson for the department, said in an email to The Star on Thursday.
There, crews found a man “who had been lowered into a tube and was unable to get out” on his own, Nolan said. A mechanism the man had been attached to failed.
The department did not specify the type of tube the man was trapped in.
First responders were able to help the man out of the tube before the fire department’s rescue companies arrived, Nolan said.
The man was taken to a hospital to “be evaluated for minor injuries,” Nolan said.
