Article: Day Fireman Sam became a little too real for Matthew.

When little Matthew Foster decided to play Fireman Sam he didn't think he'd get caught in a real emergency.

The two-year-old was emulating a scene from his favourite TV show by dangling his foot down a drain in his back garden.

Seconds later the toddler's foot became trapped - and a team of real firefighters had to come to the rescue.

He had been playing the part of Norman Price, a mischief maker on the children's television programme who often finds himself in the odd scrape.

His mum, Catherine Foster, 33, of Islands Brow, said: "I had been hanging the washing out and we had both been round the back. I nipped into the house to get ...

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