Child's play involves risk and challenge, a vital part of development. Failing, falling and picking yourself up again are crucial life lessons. But children also need to be protected from severe and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Firefighters responded to Northeast Elementary School in Vernon, Conn., to rescue a 40-year-old man who became wedged inside the ...

A Connecticut man has been saved from a slippery situation. An unidentified 40-year-old got himself stuck inside a tube slide at an elementary school playground in Vernon, Connecticut, on Aug. 16.

He was found "wedged feet and head first down the slide and stuck in the middle portion,” officials said Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

It's too bad that Chris Farley has left this mortal coil because there would be perhaps no better actor to star in a reenactment of what happened at a small-town playground when a 40-year-old man got ...

Emergency crews were called to a elementary school in Vernon, Connecticut, after a 40-year-old man got stuck inside a tube slide. EMS provided oxygen and ventilation to the man who was safely rescued ...

A Connecticut man is likely breathing a sigh of relief thanks to a team of firefighters and other emergency personnel who rescued him after he became stuck inside a tube slide at a children's ...