Battlefield visitor nearly meets his Waterloo in Gettysburg public toilet

Fire crew frees man after tree falls on car and portable convenience during high winds across Pennsylvania region

A man was rescued by emergency responders after a tree brought down by high winds trapped him inside a portable toilet at the Gettysburg civil war battlefield in southern Pennsylvania.

The Barlow volunteer fire department said on its Facebook page it was called to Little Round Top, a key scene in the Union's victory over the Confederacy in 1863, at Gettysburg national military park shortly before 4pm on Friday.