By Tanya Steele
A young boy was rescued from a tree in Belgrave Lake Park on Saturday 2 November after climbing up mid-afternoon and then finding he was unable to get down.
Rescued by several CFA and many other local emergency services, a CFA member went up the tree to place a safety harness on the child and sit with him while the rescue was underway.
Belgrave South CFA Captain Sean Grondman said the tree was near the 12-metre mark.
“He had just kept climbing, but he wasn’t stressed or upset at all,” he said.
“He was fine, it was all very exciting for him – he’d never gotten himself stuck before.”
The CFA called in for reinforcements to get appropriate equipment up to rescue the little boy.
“We called an aerial appliance in from Kalorama to squeeze the bucket in and get it high enough up in the trees,” said Captain Grondman.
“They were fantastic – Monbulk Rescue, Wandin Rescue , FRV and SES from Emerald were all there, Police and Ambulance VIctoria as well, so we had a cast of thousands,” he said.
“We all worked well together to get him down.”
