Ottawa Firefighters surprise brave boy rescued from bathtub drain
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After a harrowing ordeal where a young boy's fingers became trapped in a bathtub drain over the weekend, firefighters returned to the scene to deliver a special surprise for his bravery.
After a harrowing ordeal where a young boy's fingers became trapped in a bathtub drain over the weekend, firefighters returned to the scene to deliver a special surprise for his bravery.
Izabella Jasiewicz and Tanner Rutley's bathtub now bears the scars of a Saturday morning gone awry, with parts of the tub and ceiling below piled in a trash bin outside. What started as a routine bath for their sons, one-year-old Lincoln, and two-year-old Grayson, quickly turned into a frightening situation when three of the two-year-old's fingers became lodged inside the drain.
"His little brother decided to pull the drain of the tub and Grayson wanted it stopped. Water, suction and away they went," says mother, Izabella. "It was scary; I tried to pull his hand nothing happened. Called my neighbors they came over and they tried to help, nothing happened so 911 It was."
At the time, Rutley was out running errands when he got the call to come home.
"I went for a haircut with my oldest son. I got a frantic call from my wife that he was stuck in the drain and the firefighters were on the way, so I booked it," he says. "I got home and ran upstairs to see and it's scary for sure you can't see the other side of his fingers. You didn't know if they were purple or not they look good from the outside, but it was couple of hours of just the worst fear."
Grayson's grandmother, Joanne Jasiewic, was also visiting at the time, and helped calm the other four siblings as emergency responders rushed to the scene.
"Scary, yeah and his siblings were afraid and everybody was kind of running around going, 'What's going on?'" she says. "But I was really impressed with how Grayson just sat there calmly."
