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HARTFORD, Conn. — Jonathan Metz had been trapped for two days in his basement with his left arm stuck in a broken furnace.
Smelling rotting flesh, he decided that amputation was his only hope, so the 31-year-old fashioned a tourniquet near his shoulder and began cutting. He made it almost all the way through but wasn’t able to free himself.
He was rescued Wednesday after three days after worried friends called police, and firefighters cut the furnace apart. Doctors said Thursday the attempted amputation probably saved his life, preventing the infection in his gangrenous arm from spreading.
Denver Post wire services
