A mum had to be rescued by firefighters who cut her out of a baby swing - after she was stuck in it for an hour.<br /><br />Leala Vanbest, 22, slipped into a child's swing while hanging out with her daughter and some friends in her local park in Southend Essex yesterday (27/7).<br /><br />But after a 10-minute swing she decided to hop out and found she couldn't.<br /><br />Laughing Leala tried to wriggle free, and friends and strangers attempted to heave her out, but she was well and truly wedged.<br /><br />The fire brigade was called and four firefighters arrived within ten minutes - with sirens blaring and lights blazing at around 7.45pm.<br /><br />Hilarious footage shows three firemen taking the swing apart after failing to pull her out.<br /><br />Leala, who works in customer services, from Southend, Essex, said: "I was stuck there for about an hour - it was very, very funny.<br /><br />"Everyone was looking and laughing, and then when the fire engine arrived people started opening their doors to look too - I just couldn't stop laughing.<br /><br />"The firemen just kept cracking jokes too.<br /><br />"I don't know why I even got in the swing, I just walked over to it, and I wasn't really thinking.<br /><br />"It really hurt when everyone was trying to pull me out, and I have some bad bruises on my hips now."<br /><br />The fire crew first detached the swing from its chains, then took off the base, and finally turned the bars so Leala could get her hips through the diagonal gap.<br /><br />"It was good to be free again, but there were loads of kids with only one swing left", said Leala.
