Riverside County firefighters worked for two hours Saturday morning to free a girl who was stuck in a fireplace chimney. (photo credit: Riverside County FIre Engineer Jared Hazelaar/Twitter)
Posted on 01/03/2015 6:36:37 PM PST by BenLurkin
Firefighters were called to the home in the 15800 block of Rancho Viejo Drive in Woodcrest just before 5 a.m. and found the woman, who had become trapped in the 12-by-12 inch chimney after trying to climb down from the roof, officials said.
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Strange way to get in your house. What are the chances it wasn’t her house?
Is climbing down a chimney to prove your love for someone who rejected you becoming de rigueur? Or is this just another California fad?
“Hello, State Farm? I need to file a claim for a damaged chimney.”
People sure do some goofy things these days. Too much TV and movie watching I guess.
“What are the chances it wasn’t her house?”
About the same chance that you read the article.
We pulled a girl out of a chimney some years ago. She was down at the step over the flue with her hands over her head. Surprisingly she still had enough blood in her arms to get the rope around her.
She asked if she was going to have to pay for this.
Honey, you are going to pay for this for the rest of your life!
“About the same chance that you read the article.”
Per FR rules I didn’t read the article before posting.
The homeowner told NBC4 the woman is the mother of his children but that they were not married. He said the woman does not live in the house.
I’m curious — why do people even try?
How exactly do they plan to get past the flue?
it wasn’t her house. “friend” of the homeowners. she still could have been trespassing, article doesn’t say definitively.
There’s a lot of it going around. Does anyone ever actually get in that way?
They can't SPELL. Why do you think they know what a flue is?
Duh, YES! Those presents don’t just materialize outta thin air, do they?
/sarc :-)
“...Per FR rules I didn’t read the article before posting.”
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LOL — Them’s the old rules which have been repealed. ;^)
How exactly do they plan to get past the flue?
Amazing isn't it? Very low IQ I guess.
38 years a firefighter...Back in 1980 got a call to assist police...Heating contractor had pierced an old chimney to route a new exhaust duct for a water boiler, and a shoe had rolled out of the new opening...
Inside the shoe were bones, so the contractor called the cops...Cops wanted FFs to slowly disassemble the chimney wall so they could document the scene step by step...
Opening up revealed the complete fully-clothed skeleton of what was later determined to have been a 17 yo male who had “disappeared” over a weekend in 1947...Nobody ever knew what had happened to him, and it was presumed he’d just run away...
The building was a Mom n Pop grocery in 47, and Lil Johnny apparently had tried to burgle the joint by shimmying down the chimney...Store was closed, and bottom of the chimney had been bricked up years before...Lil Johnny didn’t know...Chimney converged in diameter towards the bottom and he got wedged stuck...
As he sank lower and lower and exhausted himself struggling, nobody could hear his cries for help...Medical Examiner said he probably suffocated the way his rib cage was lodged in the passage...
His parents were long deceased and he’d been an only child...No next of kin to inform...I still have a photo of my gloved hands holding that skull for the cops...
People do wierd stuff without a thought as to what could go wrong...
You know I went and looked that up — and all my life I have been calling the damper a flue.
But then, I never was the brightest crayon in the pencil shed.
Gruesome.
Ho ho ho...
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