A teenage girl was recovering yesterday after being rescued by firefighters when she spent two hours stuck in a tree she had scaled to retrieve a toy helicopter.

Crews from Bradford were called to Bowling Park at 10.45pm on Monday by one of the 18-year-old’s friends after she had become “frozen with fear” trying to climb down.

Watch Commander Richard Lightowler said: “She had been trying to fetch a toy helicopter at the top of the tree and then froze with fear about halfway down.

“We used our ladders and one of our firefighters brought her down.

“I think she had been trying to build up her courage to climb down, but she’d been up there a couple of hours when one of her friends called us.

“We even managed to get the helicopter down in one piece.

“We used a pole we have for water rescues to free it from the branches and one of our firefighters caught it!”