SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KNX) – Fire crews rescued a San Diego woman Sunday after she got stuck upside down in a chimney for almost an hour.
Around 5 p.m., the woman’s mother called police to her home in the Paradise Hills neighborhood to report her 30-year-old daughter “was causing a disturbance” and climbed into the chimney to get into the house, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
An official said the woman got stuck in an upside down position, which left her head 6 feet off the ground and her feet up to 10 feet from the chimney.
Fire officials used a tripod with ropes to get the woman out.
“We had crews inside that were attempting to breach the wall to access her, as well as crews go to the roof of the house and use a tripod and a rope and a winch system,” San Diego Fire-Rescue Department Battalion Chief Tommy Charpentier explained to OnScene.TV.
“And that’s how we ended up getting her out, pulling her up out the top of the chimney and then putting her into a basket to bring her safely down off the roof.”
The rescue mission took 30 minutes and upon being rescued, the woman was taken to the hospital. Her condition is unknown at this time.
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