Firefighters in New York had to use emergency tools to rescue a teenager from a clothing store fitting room on Tuesday. The store is in an old bank, and the fitting room area is in the old VAULT. While a 14-year-old girl was trying on clothes, her 7-year old brother closed the vault door, and the employees didn’t know how to open it.
Erland said the wall was composed of 18 inches of brick and concrete.
“We used hammer drills, we used our jaws of life, our cutter,” Erland said. “Pretty much any tool that was on our rescue truck we used to get access to this area.”
Erland said they went through so many demolition hammers that they had to call a nearby tool rental store for more hammers.
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