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In this still from a WJAC-TV video, 5-year-old Landon Jones can be seen about 30 feet up into a pine tree he climbed in State College Monday afternoon.

STATE COLLEGE — Firefighters had to be called to help a 5-year-old central Pennsylvania boy whose curiosity got the best of him.

Mercedes Jones tells WJAC-TV her son, Landon, climbed about 30 feet up into a pine tree in Orchard Park in State College Monday afternoon — and then got a little nervous about climbing back down. His mom says her son “saw a squirrel nest and wanted to see inside of it.”

Alpha Fire Chief Jeff Martin climbed up to keep the boy calm and told him, “I used to climb trees a lot when I was a kid.”

As they waited for a ladder, Martin realized the boy just needed some encouragement to climb back down without one.

His mother says, “He’s going to have a good time telling his dad this story tonight.”