First Published: 2:27 PM PDT, May 3, 2021
The weather conditions that day were extremely windy Robinson explained and crews across the region were handling calls of downed trees and wires, as well as fires. The majority of those were related to the wind, Robinson said.
A man visiting the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg made some history of his own when he got trapped in a porta-potty at the historic site when a tree crashed down, crushing a portion of the portable toilet as he was inside.
The man, who was not identified, did not suffer serious injuries, the York Daily Record reported. However, he did have to spend part of his afternoon in a portable toilet.
May 3, 2021
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) Authorities say a man was rescued after a tree that fell during high winds trapped him inside a portable toilet at Gettysburg National Military Park in south-central Pennsylvania.
The Barlow Volunteer Fire Department said on its Facebook page that the crew was called to Little Round Top shortly before 4 p.m. Friday. Assistant Chief Joe Robinson told the York Daily Record that they found a tree atop a vehicle but no one inside, and park rangers then told them the tree had trapped a man in the portable toilet.
Robinson said crews treated it like a car entrapment, cutting away the tree with a chain saw and then cutting the portable toilet open with another saw.
A lucky Gettysburg battlefield visitor has cheated death after a giant tree crashed down on the portable toilet he was using, trapping him inside.
The poor occupant was rescued from the toilet at the Gettysburg National Military Park by Barlow Volunteer Fire Department just before 4pm on Friday.
The crew treated the man s predicament as a car entrapment and managed to cut him free from the porta-potty.
Assistant Chief Joe Robinson said the rescue team had cut away parts of the fallen tree and then open the portable toilet with a Sawzall to free the man.
A lucky Gettysburg battlefield visitor has cheated death after a giant tree crashed down on the portable toilet he was using, trapping him inside
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a man was rescued after a tree that fell during high winds trapped him inside a portable toilet at Gettysburg National Military Park in