A 7-year-old girl stuck 80 feet up in a tree in Clinton had to be rescued last week.

The incident occurred Friday evening, June 17, at a Guemes Avenue home in Scatchet Head.

According to South Whidbey Fire/EMS Deputy Chief Jason Laughren, the young adventurer boldly scaled the tree with a friend shortly before 7 p.m. The girl didn’t count on what it’d be like so far above the ground, however, and though her friend was able to climb down on her own, she froze. Firefighters spent about an hour helping her back to base camp.

The rescue was complicated by power lines; they blocked the district’s ladder so first responders had to coax the girl down to about 60 feet. From there she was carried to safety