After some children built a snow fort, a Duluth man checked to make sure it was safe.

It wasn’t.

Duluth firefighters were called at 3:15 p.m. Saturday to the 2700 block of Jean Duluth Road where a 62-year-old man was reported trapped in snow, said Jarry Keppers, assistant fire chief.

The snow in a newly built fort had collapsed, leaving only the man’s head and part of his posterior showing, Keppers said.

Firefighters arrived in less than seven minutes and were able to free the man within a minute, Keppers said. The man was unhurt.

It’s at least the second such incident in the Twin Ports this winter. On Jan. 19, two Hermantown police officers pulled a man from a collapsed snow tunnel at a home on Getchell Road. The man was not seriously injured.