A woman had to be rescued by fire brigade when a sofa got stuck in the stairwell leaving her trapped in the basement for three hours. Melissa, 53, who does not want her surname to be published, was moving the sofa into the basement with the help of her partner, Todd, 55, when it became stuck.
Daughter Claire, 23, found her mum trapped on the wrong side of the sofa and tried to help - before giving up. Melissa, a preschool teacher, was stuck in the basement for almost three hours while Claire and Todd tried to dislodge a handrail from the wall in hopes of freeing her.
Todd, an energy company manager, even made a hole in the wall trying to get the sofa into the basement, but to no avail. Eventually, the family had to call firefighters. The fire brigade successfully got the handrail off the wall by wriggling through the hole.
