911 Call Placed After Long Island Girl Gets Stuck In Washing Machine
UPDATED 09/19/14 12:01 a.m.
ELMONT, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) -- A mother had to call 911 after a 10-year-old girl found herself stuck in a washing machine this week in Elmont, Long Island.
As CBS 2's Andrea Grymes reported Thursday night, it is usually clothes that get twisted up in the washing machine. But this time, it was Dejannah Price, 10, of Elmont.
"I was like this, like, over, and I was face first like that," Dejannah said.
Dejannah said she was leaning over as she took rugs out of the washer on Wednesday like her mother asked her to do, when she lost her balance and flipped right into the machine.
"(I was) scared at first, and then it started to get funny," Dejannah said.
But her mother was did not think it was so funny at all.
"We was pissed because we was like, 'How the hell are we going to get her out of here?'" said Dejannah's mother, Diana Brown. "We attempted, but we couldn't."
Nassau County police had to come to the home, along with the local fire department. They arrived just minutes after Brown called 911.
"It was embarrassing," Brown said.
"They were like, 'Uh this is a first. How did she get in there?'" Brown said. "And then I told them."
Dejannah spent nearly an hour stuck like a pretzel. She said first responders ultimately removed parts of the washer to get her out.
"I'm like, 'Oh yes, I'm out!' Then my mom, I was like, sore -- I'm like hunched over like this, and then my mom, she's like, 'Oh, my baby!'" Dejannah said.
Luckily, Dejannah was not seriously injured. She said she did learn an important lesson.
"I'm never helping my mom with laundry ever again," Dejannah said.
Brown said she can at least stick to a front-load dryer.
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