Man has to amputate his own arm

Shades of Aron Ralston...

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...

Metz, who lives alone, had been working to replace the boiler fins on his furnace Sunday when his arm became trapped...

More at the link.  It reminds me of Tom Brokaw's television interview with Aron Ralston; I wish I could find that video to embed or link to, but the full video appears to be unavailable.