Firefighters had to intervene to help a young man this Tuesday afternoon on Añaza street in Arrecife. The boy was manipulating the chain of his bicycle when his hand became trapped between it and the gear sprockets, which exerted strong pressure on his fingers. After managing to free the young man's hand, the health services took care of attending to him.
"He had them completely stuck. We had to use the bolt cutter to remove the chain, which was what surrounded and pressed him," they explained from the Security and Emergency Consortium. An ambulance from the Canary Emergency Service also came to Añaza street, whose medical personnel attended to the young man after the firefighters' intervention.
The SUC doctors finally decided to take him "as a precaution," they added from the Consortium. For its part, the Security and Emergency Coordination Center explains that the young man has finally been transferred to the Molina Orosa Hospital in Arrecife, where they were going to "take an X-ray in case there was a fracture or a fissure" in those two fingers that have been pierced by the metal of the sprockets.
