Area fire department rescues 11-year-old girl with autism from gully

CINCINNATI — Area firefighters helped rescue an 11-year-old girl with autism who got stuck in a gully.

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Cincinnati firefighters were called around at 5:59 p.m. Wednesday to Bramble Park and learned the young girl was at the bottom of a gully, standing “precariously close” to a small body of icy water, according to our news partners at WCPO.

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Crews lowered an extension ladder down the steep slope of the gully, and two firefighters climbed down to the girl.

The firefighters put a personal flotation device on the girl and guided her to and up the ladder, “for an uneventful ascent and joyous reunion with her father,” a report states.

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