Crime & Safety

Firefighters Rescue Boy Trapped Between Two Walls

The child had somehow gotten stuck between two walls at Labourdette Park.

Firefighters were able to rescue a six-year-old boy who somehow got trapped between two walls at  on Howard Avenue in Los Alamitos.

The child was trapped for about an hour, and firefighters had to cut through a wall to rescue him, according to a dispatcher with the Orange County Fire Authority. Despite the scare, the child came through the ordeal unscathed. Firefighters received the call just before 1 p.m. and had him free by 2 p.m.


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