Due to high winds, a tree fell and crushed a porta-potty while a man was inside at the Gettysburg battlefield site. First responders had to cut him out before he was taken to hospital.
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First responders have rescued a man who became imprisoned inside a porta-potty at the site of a historic Gettysburg battlefield in Pennsylvania.
On Friday, volunteer firefighters from the Barlow Volunteer Fire Department responded to a 911 call at Little Round Top to find that a large tree that had toppled in high winds had crushed a car and a portable latrine, The York Daily Record reported.
Volunteers found no one inside the vehicle, the outlet said, but identified that the tree had trapped a man inside the crushed porta-potty, and proceeded to cut him out.
He was taken to Gettysburg Hospital by ambulance with injuries not considered life-threatening.
“Arrived to find one male subject trapped in the porta-potty,” Joe Robinson, assistant chief of the Barlow Volunteer Fire Department, wrote on the department’s Facebook page.
“He was very lucky,” Robinson told the York Daily Record. “It was a large tree, and it just missed striking him. It could have been very serious.”
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The firefighters treated the situation as if the man had been trapped in the car, Robinson said. They used a chainsaw to cut away the tree and they cracked the porta-potty open with a machine-powered saw.
“This is definitely something I have never seen before,” Robinson added. Read more from Insider
The Historic Gettysburg battlefield is in Pennsylvania, Little Round Top is the smaller of two rocky hills south of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania—the companion to the adjacent, taller hill named Big Round Top.
It was the site of an unsuccessful assault by Confederate troops against the Union left flank on July 2, 1863, the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, during the American Civil War.
Little Round Top was successfully defended by a brigade under Colonel Strong Vincent, who was mortally wounded during the fighting and died five days later.
The 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment, commanded by Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, fought its most famous engagement there, culminating in a dramatic downhill bayonet charge. The battle at Little Round Top subsequently became one of the most well-known actions at Gettysburg, and of the entire war.
