Gwinnett County firefighters spent several hours Tuesday night working to free a child’s arm from a swimming pool vacuum line.
Crews sent to an apartment complex pool in the 1700 block of Winter Brook Court near Norcross just before 8:30 p.m. found the 8-year-old girl’s wrist stuck in the line, a PVC pipe encased in the concrete on the side of the pool.
Gwinnett fire Lt. Eric Eberly said family members were holding the girl up to keep her above the waterline.
Firefighters cut the concrete into small pieces to reach the tube and the girl’s arm.
The child, whose name has not been released, was finally freed from the concrete about 11:20 p.m., and was taken to a local hospital to have the PVC pipe removed from her arm, Eberly said.
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