Cairns child rescued from a toy vending machine

Cairns firefighters were called to rescue a young child who had managed to get inside a toy vending machine where the child was found happily playing with the plush toys.

FIREFIGHTERS are used to attending fires, car crashes and Hazmat events, but rescuing a child from inside a vending machine is the kind of incident you might think never happens.

But when called out shortly after noon on Sunday to an incident involving a youngster at Sugarworld Shopping Centre in precisely that situation, Queensland Fire and Emergency Services Station Officer Guy Bulmer said it was not the first time his colleagues had undertaken such a rescue.

SO Bulmer said the vending machine was near a supermarket and it appeared the child had found way in through the prize collection door.

“The child was not harmed during the extrication,” he said.

“In fact the child seemed quite amused at the toys inside the vending machine and the growing number of spectators”.

SO Bulmer said firefighters were pleased that incident went smoothly.

“We also managed to remove the child without causing damage to the vending machine.

“We have been to a couple of these incidents before, they are not very common but they have occurred in the past.”

SO Bulmer estimated that the child might have been three years old.

Queensland Ambulance confirmed they were called to incident but were called off as they were not needed.

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Meanwhile, emergency services were called to a number of other traffic incidents including a vehicle crash on Sheridan St, Cairns North around 2.30pm.

QFES confirmed they had two crews attended the incident which involved a car that had flipped onto its roof.

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A QFES representative said a fire truck and a rescue truck attended the incident.

“There were no entrapments,” she said.

Queensland Ambulance said they had three crews of paramedics who assessed a man and a women.

However, a QAS spokeswoman said both people refused transport.

Queensland Police were also on scene.

Originally published as Cairns child rescued from a toy vending machine