US woman rescued after falling in toilet trying to get phone

A file photo of an outhouse. Manly said the woman, who was at the top of Mount Walker in the Olympic National Forest northwest of Seattle, had been using her phone when it fell into the pit toilet of an outhouse on April 19. — Photo by Amy Reed on Unsplash

QUILCENE, Washington: A woman who accidentally dropped her cellphone into the hole of an outhouse in a national forest and fell in while trying to retrieve it had to be rescued by firefighters in Washington state.

Brinnon Fire Department Chief Tim Manly said the woman, who was at the top of Mount Walker in the Olympic National Forest northwest of Seattle, had been using her phone when it fell into the toilet on April 19, The Kitsap Sun reported.