California
woman gets stuck in chimney trying to sneak into home
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[October 21, 2014]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California
woman who tried to sneak into a house through the chimney got stuck and
had to be rescued by firefighters, who used dish soap to help extricate
the soot-covered intruder, authorities said on Monday.
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Local media reports say the woman, identified by police as
Genoveva Nunez-Figueroa, 30, tried on Sunday to enter the Los
Angeles-area house of a man who said he met her online, and that
when she got stuck she started screaming for help.
Firefighters who arrived found her about 7 feet (2 meters) down the
chimney, which they took apart brick by brick down to the roof line,
Ventura County Department spokesman Bill Nash said.
"She's stuck in there and obviously she doesn't need bricks falling
down on her on top of that," Nash said.
The team of about 10 firefighters spent two hours extracting the
woman, pulling her out with straps after lubricating the chimney
interior with dish soap, Nash said. She was then taken to a hospital
for observation, he said.
Nunez-Figueroa was later arrested for illegal entry and providing
false information to a police officer, which involved her
misrepresenting her identity, said Ventura County Sheriff's Office
spokesman Captain Don Aguilar.
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A man who lived in the house in Thousand Oaks, west of Los Angeles,
and who gave his name only as Lawrence, told local television
station KCBS that he had met the woman online and that it was not
the first time she had tried to enter his home.
Aguilar said he could not say why Nunez-Figueroa was trying to enter
the house.
(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis in Los Angeles; Editing by Cynthia
Johnston and Eric Walsh)
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