A 13-year-old girl’s hand got tangled beneath the handrail of an escalator at a shopping mall in Santa Ana on Sunday, July 31, and had to be freed by firefighters.
According to the Orange County Fire Authority, the injury occurred at the south end of the MainPlace Mall at about 6:30 p.m.
About eight firefighters worked to free her on the first floor as bystanders watched.
The girl was given medication for pain while rescuers disassembled the mechanism, Morganstern said. Then, a small Dremel was used to grind away the remaining plastic and metal binding her hand. The process took over an hour.
Afterward, the girl who suffered the personal injury, wept and called out for her mother with her right arm wrapped in bandages as she was on a stretcher that was loaded into an ambulance.
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