One young York man owes his freedom today to firefighters.
Somehow the 12-year-old boy got stuck in mud on Clifton Backies last night (Wednesday, July 5).
A fire crew from Acomb was called out at 7.29pm and found he was lodged in the mud up to his hip.
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Firefighters used a ladder, a throw line and a small shovel to dig him out. Happily the boy was unharmed by his sticky experience.
There’s only one last question – after this hot dry spell how did anyone find enough mud to get stuck in?
Because the lake on the Backies is so low at the moment there’s actually no water in it in places just mud. The boy wouldn’t have known how deep the mud was going to be & must have thought he could walk on it.
That explains it – thanks!