A boy was trapped between boulders for 9 hours until crews could free him

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Rescuers freed an 11-year-old boy who slipped between two boulders close to his college and was trapped for greater than 9 hours, a New Hampshire fireplace chief mentioned Monday.

The boy was pried out of the boulders in Windsor at about 3:15 a.m. He was taken to a hospital for analysis and launched, in response to the Wediko Faculty, the place the boy is a scholar.

“On Sunday night, whereas beneath supervision, a scholar exploring a rocky space on campus slipped between two boulders when sticks and particles gave means beneath them,” the varsity, a residential remedy heart for boys, mentioned in an announcement Monday.

“Regardless of a number of workers members’ efforts to free the scholar, they had been unsuccessful and promptly referred to as native emergency rescue companies,” the assertion mentioned. “Emergency responders labored tirelessly by way of the night time, efficiently rescuing the scholar within the early morning.”

Firefighters received a name to reply shortly earlier than 6 p.m. Sunday, the place they discovered the boy “lodged between the crevasse” in a big boulder, Hillsborough Hearth Chief Kenny Stafford mentioned. They used ropes and a lubricant to rescue the kid, he mentioned.

First responders from at the very least 5 different communities, in addition to the state police and Fish and Recreation Division, assisted with the rescue in Windsor, in southern New Hampshire.