Firefighters make dramatic rescue after boy, 5, makes crucial mistake

Firefighters in carried out a dramatic rescue after a five-year-old boy became stuck high in the branches of a backyard tree, perched an astonishing 35 feet above the ground.

The rescuers in the small town of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, are used to handling the occasional feline in distress but retrieving a child from a tree was a very different kind of emergency.

'Everyone knows fire departments respond to cats stuck in a tree,' the Rehoboth Fire Department wrote in a statement posted to . 'Well today was a first for us — we responded to a kid stuck in a tree. We successfully removed the little fella from the tree and placed him safely on the ground where he belongs.'

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