Had to call the fire brigade after getting stuck in disabled toilet

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So hoping this might cheer a couple of people up…

An embarrassing situation happened today to me. I went to the disabled toilet using my radar key, and then I went to leave….and the door wouldn’t open.

I tried for about 10-15 minutes to get it open and nothing was working. These toilets are unsupervised too so there was no attendants to help….I had to call the bloody fire brigade to come and rescue me.

The staring was mortifying, and then they had trouble getting the door open. At one point they had a crowbar and it still wasn’t shifting.

What’s the most embarrassing thing that’s happened to you involving EMS?

Not the emergency services; but still very embarrassing. After a long drive home, we stopped off at a fast food place with DS (8) and twin DDs (2). DD1 was the much bigger twin. Twins went into the high chairs fine. When it was time to leave, we couldn’t get DD1 out of the high chair! Due to SEN, including dyspraxia, we couldn’t make her understand, she needed to keep her legs straight, as we lifted her up. She was stuck in the high chair!

We had to wait an hour for maintenance to come and unscrew the high chair, to take it apart!

Oh that must have caused a panic with your dd. Bless her.

I had my 13 year old with me, and at first she thought it was hilarious, but when I was finally released from the toilets, she was sobbing. Little muppet.

Locked my 6 month old in the car. Luckily the California Highway Patrol stopped and broke into the car for me.

Im a firefighter and honestly it’s not as rare as you think…. We have dealt with worse (or less worse if you know what I mean). Don’t worry! Glad all is ok!

My 18month old little horror locked himself in the bathroom. Then couldn’t unlock it. (Slide bolt) Not a problem you would think, I’m a hefty gal and tried flinging myself against the door jamb to split it, then remembered my ex council house home, all the doorframes were metal. Called fire brigade, they got him out (cue one bent doorframe) and he was so excited to see lots of ‘fireman Sam’ and had a quick tour of the fire engine. We removed the bolt…

I was living in a rented flat, not been there long, got home from work one day and the CO alarm was beeping. Not the fast alarm beep, but not as slow as the dead battery beep.

On the case of the alarm was printed, if this alarm sounds, phone the Fire Brigade. I wasn't going to phone 999, so looked up the local number for the nearest fire station. Explained the issue, said it wasn't an emergency. No problem, says the cheerful man on the phone, we'll send someone to take a look.

I was expecting someone in a car with a meter to check for carbon monoxide. Then I heard the sirens coming along the main road... Yup, 2 fire engines with full crew, blue lights and sirens. They must have been having a quiet evening. At any rate, they checked for carbon monoxide, took the beeping CO alarm away with them, and said to get a new one. Absolutely mortified, all the neighbours were staring out of the windows.

My dhs best friend is a fireman, dd2 got locked in the bathroom once, he offered to send the boys round. I managed to barge it open and removed the lock. Not long after it was put back on I got locked in, luckily he was at ours at the time.

My favourite one of his was on our street. L shaped street so our house, next door then flats in the L shape. Upstairs flats fire alarms blaring like hell. The tenant arrives just as the guys are getting the ladders up. Up he goes through the kitchen window, came bolting back out not even 5 seconds later, nearly missing the ladder. It was flea bombs setting off the alarm. The woman is so brass necked she wasn't even remotely mortified.

I once had to be rescued by the fire brigade when I locked myself in a holiday cottage toilet as a preschooler.

I don’t remember the incident but according to my dad his efforts to coax me to open the window (to let him climb in) were futile, so fire brigade it was!

Locked my 4 month old and the keys in the car after breast feeding him in the passenger seat and exiting the car to get into drivers seat 😳 fortunately I'd fastened him in his car seat but he was hysterical by the time the AA man opened the door with a wire coat hanger! I still get flashbacks and he's 35🤦‍♀️

Our kitchen caught fire due to a chip pan... and my dad was a firefighter.

He had no end of ribbing apparently by his colleagues who came to put it out!

Another toilet one but no emergency call outs .
I went into a toilet block and on the outside of one toilet was a note saying the door sometimes sticks .
Someone was in the loo trying to get it open . I said to her shall I give it a shove to help and she answered yes . I said stand back and gave it a big push , she hadn't stood back and I practically knocked her out , she was swooning when she came out !

Did my back in and couldnt move home alone. Called ambulance but they couldnt access and i couldnt get to door. Police had to force entry. Got me moving with gas and air. Ended up in hospital for 3 weeks and many months off work. I was also naked.

That happened to me, well being locked in the toilet. I was heavily pregnant and was having a cup of tea at the holy island in Northumberland. Done the toilet, went to open the door and it was stuck. Couldn’t open the window either. Then the owner tried to help open the door, but yet again nothing was working, they asked if I could jump from the window, I ciuldnt jump out the window as I was 8 months pregnant. Then a nice gentleman kicked it open. Wow what a relief! We laugh about this now and again xx

I thought disabled toilets had to have an emergency pull cord for just this sort of situation - isn't that a legal requirement?

It did, which I pulled and eventually switched off after 10 mins as no one was answering. I didn’t really expect an answer anyway, because no staff were around.

That's absolutely shocking and should be reported to...I don't know who, but presumably there's someone it can be reported to. That's potentially fatal and flies in the face of the requirement to have a pull cord alarm.

My ex’s Dad was a Chief Fire Officer, and accidentally set his own home on fire TWICE.

When I was about 3 locked my mum out of the house and couldn’t unlock the back door. Apparently she went to the neighbour who managed to squeeze through an open window. I very vaguely remember it.

Had to call the fire service once at about 1am when dd2, who was about 13, slammed her bedroom door and it jammed in the frame. The police and ambulance were always at our house but I think this is the first and only time for the fire service.
i had to go to the rescue of next door neighbours a few months ago when a dog they were dog sitting for locked them in the garden. I think he’d slid the bolt over or something. Luckily I was in my garden and they called me. Also luckily their garage door was unlocked.
Like a pp, my friend and I had a Holy Island drama when we misread the tide timetables and got stuck there for hours. It was a Sunday afternoon out of season and nothing was open!

At work, walking from my office to a meeting room in another building through a large public lobby. Slipped on the floor and landed very heavily on my knees, which were then so painful I couldn't get up for a while. And then, of course, I was also in tears from the pain and humiliation and I had to go to my meeting late, and with a red and blotchy face.

The thing is, it was a hospital, so the floor shouldn't have been that slippery in the first place, and the lobby was full of patients and visitors.