Ukrainian rescuers helped a pensioner who got stuck at the entrance to her own apartment due to a huge amount of garbage, according to the website of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.
The incident took place in the city of Khmelnitsky. The woman’s neighbors turned for help, and they saw only her legs in the doorway. After unsuccessful attempts to pull her out on their own, they called rescuers.
“The communication point 1 of the State Fire and Rescue Unit received a message that the apartment of one of the residential buildings on the street. Lvov highway, in the regional center, an elderly woman was pinned by a door, ”it was reported.
When rescuers arrived at the scene, they found that the woman was trying to get home, but was stuck in the aisle due to rubble. To save the pensioner, rescuers had to climb through the window to the third floor and make their way through the apartment turned into a dump to save the “captive.”
After the woman was released, she was handed over to ambulance workers.
On July 22, in the Tula region, a pensioner received multiple fractures while walking down from his friend’s window on sheets. A 61-year-old man was admitted to a regional hospital and was diagnosed with fractures of the ribs and pelvis.