SAN FERNANDO, Calif. (KABC) — Firefighters rescued a lady trapped in a small chimney in San Fernando on Tuesday.
AIR7 flew over the scene the place a number of Los Angeles firefighters had been working to free the girl from the chimney. It occurred at a municipal constructing on the Metropolis of San Fernando Recreation Heart on N. Park Avenue. Officers say the small constructing is used for storage.
In response to LAFD, an roughly 30-year-old lady was found about three ft deep throughout the chimney/exhaust flue.
Members of the L.A. Fireplace Division’s City Search and Rescue Staff had to make use of a ladder to achieve her after which used a harness to elevate her up and out of the chimney.
Video exhibits the crew lifting the girl out of the chimney. Over a dozen firefighters stood on the roof as they labored to free the girl.
Finally, she was lifted out and lowered to the roof, the place she was strapped to a gurney and lowered to the bottom utilizing the truck ladder as a crane.
The girl was alert and aware as she was loaded into an ambulance and brought away from the scene.
“It is loopy! You’d suppose it is a present that someone placed on, and the present is over, nevertheless it wasn’t a present. It is actuality,” mentioned witness Jose Rivera.
Witnesses say the girl was performing erratically earlier than she bought caught.
“I may see a woman on high of the roof. She was pulling her shirt up, then pulling her pants down, simply on the roof like, dancing,” mentioned witness Israel Olivas. “I come round once more and I see her arms waving out the chimney. She’s simply screaming, ‘Assist! Assist! Assist!'”
“We heard her screaming… I assumed she was joking, however then it become one thing severe when she began saying, ‘I am harm. I am harm. I need assistance and I am unable to get out,’ after which folks began taking her severely,” Rivera mentioned.
A witness mentioned there was a half-empty bottle of tequila within the lady’s backpack, although it is unclear if she had consumed any alcohol earlier than the rescue.
It is unknown how the girl grew to become caught within the first place.
LAFD mentioned the rescue was full at 8 p.m.
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