Firefighters save man trapped between fence and wall for seven hours

Firefighters in Cardiff were forced to rescue a man who became lodged between a wall and a fence for over seven hours.

The unnamed man was left with a suspected broken leg and dehydration after becoming trapped at around 11pm on Monday, and was finally freed at 6.30am the following morning.

South Wales Fire and Rescue Service were called to Old Church Road in Whitchurch, a small suburb of the Welsh capital, after a passer-by reported the incident.

A spokeswoman for the fire brigade said officers were confused as to how the man could have got so firmly trapped in the gap.

She continued: “We do not know how he got stuck. The ambulance service was later in attendance and the man was taken to hospital.”

Small drills and chisels were used by the firefighters to free the man from the wall.

The pub’s manager Kelly Clarke said she “thought the pub was on fire” when officers knocked on her door in the early hours, and that it was the first she had heard of the incident.

The man was taken to University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff for treatment to his injured leg.