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Salina, NY -- Veteran firefighters were left shaking their heads with the emergency call that drove up about noon today to Liverpool Fire Station No. 2 on Seventh North Street.


Liverpool firefighters removed a potty seat from a 2-year-old boy's head. The boy's mother took this photo."In 29 years, I've seen a lot of things, but this was definitely a first," said First Deputy Liverpool Fire Chief Gary Vincitore.
Into the fire station, a mother brought her 2-year-old son with a plastic potty seat hopelessly stuck on his head.

"He just put it over his head and pulled," Vincitore said.

Vincitore has seen a lot of kids get stuck in a lot of things, but never a potty seat. Vincitore used his hands to show how big the plastic potty seat was, about a foot-and-a half square.

Firefighters quickly cut the seat to free the boy's head.

The boy, who firefighters did not identify, cried very briefly, Vincitore said. Then they brought the boy to the fire trucks, let him sit in one and gave him a fire helmet to wear.

"Once he saw the trucks, he was fine," Vincitore said.

After the boy was free, the mother collected her son and the cut-up potty seat and went home. As she left, she declined a reporter's request for an interview. The boy just smiled.