Toronto firefighters were called in to free a man who somehow became stuck between two buildings near Sherbourne and Queen Streets Tuesday night.
The gap was said to be no more than eight inches wide.
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Rescue crews tried to use ropes to free the man but he was apparently too weak to grasp them.
"He’s got some lack of circulation in his arms and legs so he can't really move," Platoon Chief James Green told our sister station CP24. "He’s got a rebar that’s wedged around his legs. He’s in a bit of a state, that’s for sure."
It's unclear how he got stuck there, though he may have been trying to retrieve something.
The man was stuck for more than five hours before firefighters were able to cut through a wall to get him out.
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77-year old Donald Lee owns the now damaged building. He says he's living on a small pension and can't afford to fix the hole.
Lee says he asked the firefighters who was going to pay for the damage and was told, "talk to the chief."