Firefighters free a 'Curious Kid,' and INCIDENT TV's viewers remember getting stuck too
The clips channel's rescue short drew a comment section full of childhood confessions and a few step-by-step lessons in getting out of the bars.
INCIDENT TVStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,958,402 views a day, 25 times a normal first day on this channel (79,680).
Firefighters Save a Curious Kid! ❤️
INCIDENT TV put up "Firefighters Save a Curious Kid! ❤️" on October 2, and it had passed 1.6 million views before it was a day old. For this clips channel's Shorts, a first day like that is far outside the routine. It is also the third fast opener in a row, after the Lambo short and the storm clip "They Had No Clue!", as we reported here.
The title says what happens: a fire crew comes to free a child. The comments fill in the rest. It is the classic playground trap, a small head pushed through the bars of a fence or gate. As its about text says, INCIDENT TV edits footage gathered from elsewhere, and the short does not say where it was filmed or who held the camera.
What makes this one different is the conversation underneath. In under a day the short drew more than fifteen times the comments a new short here usually gets in its whole first day, and most of them are confessions. One viewer had a finger stuck in a toy pool table, freed by a firehouse crew with dish soap and a lot of jokes. Another had a foot caught between two tree branches. A third got stuck in a swimming pool gate on a school trip. Running alongside the memories is a practical thread: several commenters explain that a head is often wider than the shoulders, so the way out is to turn the body back through the gap, pushing rather than pulling.
The rest of the channel kept moving too. Two older shorts, "Cops Pull Up For a Giant Fish! 🤣🔥🐟" and "No Way The Villain Won! 😭🤞🥀", picked up speed again, and INCIDENT TV added close to a fifth to its subscriber count in a week, reaching 247,000.
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What viewers say
Look at that another shared experience by almost all of us
@ScoobyMcDoSee it on YouTubeThe firefighter is a hero
@letourdefrancepog1See it on YouTubeI was once climbing a tree at the playground and my foot got caught in a little crevice between two branches. I was stuck. Fortunately, a bunch of really nice men came, and alongside my mom, got me out of there. Haven't climbed a tree since
@firechasersparklesSee it on YouTube
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- Channel
- INCIDENT TV
- Subscribers
- 247,000 ▲ 38,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 168,229,841
- Channel views, pace per day
- 40,401,193 (on a normal day: 21,649,422)
- Video published
- October 2, 2026
- Video views so far
- 1,658,003 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 1,958,402
The numbers
The figures show a short that started far beyond the channel's usual pace, in a week when the whole channel ran well above its normal day.
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