Palatine Firefighters rescue a child that was trapped inside a claw machine

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One fact about firefighters is that not only are they on call on a 24 hours and seven days a week schedule, they also get calls to rescue animals stuck in trees and now children who get stuck inside a claw machine. Palatine Fire Department Captain Franck Klucek and his crew were called on Thursday to rescue a three year old child that was stuck inside a claw machine that has toys inside as prizes. The laundry shop is located on the 1200 block of West Dundee Street. The firefighters cut the top part of the claw machine. Then one fireman went inside the arcade game to get the young boy out of the arcade game while a second firefighter handed the boy to his mother. However the child did get two toys from the arcade game as his prize even though he needed help from the firefighters to get him out of the machine. How he entered inside the claw machine remains a mystery.