A four-year-old Alabama boy who climbed up a tree on a dare from his big brother had to be rescued after he got stuck for about two hours.

His grandmother said the boy and two of his brothers were playing outside when she went to see him and found him about 50ft up the tree.

One boy stayed on the ground and she said she was able to coax another boy out of the tree, but the four-year-old was stuck.

She called firefighters but they could not reach him, so a specialist tree crew had to rescue the boy.

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