GRAND CHUTE, WI (WTAQ) – Authorities in the Fox Valley say a three-year-old boy had to be rescued after falling into a restaurant’s grease pit.
Fire officials say it happened last Friday when the boy was standing on top of the manhole cover above the pit at the Denny’s restaurant in Grand Chute.
“The child had fallen through an in place but unsecured manhole cover which had approximately four feet of cold grease contents inside of it,” Grand Chute Fire Department division chief Matthew Kasriel told FOX 11.
The boy’s parents managed to pull the child to safety when fire crews arrived.
Authorities say the boy was treated inside the restaurant, then taken to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Appleton. No word on the child’s current condition.
“Fire personnel assisted in ensuring that the manhole covers were secured in place mitigating that hazard.”
Officials notified Outagamie County Public Health about the incident.
FOX 11 contacted the public health department and Mary Dorn, a public health officer, said, “The securing of covers on the grease pit doesn’t fall under the licensing and inspecting that we do as a public health agency.”
Grand Chute’s community development department says it’s the restaurants responsibility to make sure its grease pits are secure.
