A two-year-old in Beverly, Mass., did what two-year-olds do … and first responders had to be called in to rescue him.

Little Theo thrust his head between the banisters on the stairs in his home, and his wee head got stuck. His frantic mother called for emergency responders, and local police and firefighters succeeded in getting him out by using oil and pulling the posts apart.

As responders clambered up the stairs, gathered around the child and pulled apart the posts, Theo cried, saying it hurt. Mercifully, it took only seconds to rescue him.

A friend of the family, Stanly Foreman, captured the incident on video.

“He got adventurous and put his head between the spindles going upstairs,” his mother, Liz, told Forman. “And we couldn’t get his head out. It was very scary, right Theo? We don’t know how you got it in there.”

She said the little boy had been playing while waiting for his grandmother to take him to the park.

After the ordeal was over, Theo got to check out the fire engines.