Mom grateful to city firefighters for help
Crews retrieve child locked inside Burnaby bedroom
Helping out: Firefighter Nick Greenwood, here with 22-month-old Annie, is a firefighter with the Edmonds fire hall. Fellow firefighters helped to get the girl out of a locked bedroom a few days prior; she and mom Sophie Liang visited the hall to say thanks to the department.
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A team of Burnaby firefighters based in the Edmonds hall are at the top of Sophie Liang's Christmas card list.
Earlier this week, a team of Burnaby firefighters was called to Liang's second floor residence.
Liang was taking care of her 22-month-old daughter, Annie, when she had to go downstairs to prepare some baby food.
Annie was in her crib when Liang left the room, but within seconds, Annie had climbed up on the crib and somehow locked the door to the room from the inside.
When Liang came back from the kitchen, she couldn't get into her daughter's room and when Annie started crying, Liang decided to call 911.
Ladder 2 from the Edmonds fire hall were there within minutes and had to go up to the second-floor balcony and enter Annie's room through the window.
The firefighters were then able to unlock the door and let a grateful Liang reunite with her daughter.
"I am so thankful to the Burnaby firefighters," said Liang. "They saved my baby."
Liang made a visit to the Edmonds fire hall to hank the fireighters on the adder 2 team.
"We get calls like this all the time," said Burnaby fire chief Shaun Redmond. "It's all in the course of our daily work. - I think the lesson to be learned here is you can't leave your child unattended, even for a short amount of time. Things can happen very quickly, so please, don't leave your child unattended."
