MD Firefighters Extricate Man Stuck in Chimney
By Simone Jasper
Source The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) (TNS)
Jan. 10—Firefighters were seen pulling bricks from a house's wall as they tried to reach a man trapped inside its chimney.
The man apparently didn't live at the home, Maryland officials said.
He somehow got stuck in the chimney of a house in Silver Spring before crews came to save him, according to Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service.
Ibrar Khan said his family was enjoying a fire and watching a movie inside the house on Jan. 8 when he heard mysterious rustling sounds, WRC-TV reported.
"I kept hearing some really loud banging noises, some thudding noises, like something was banging the wall," Khan told the news outlet.
Video posted to Twitter shows firefighters using their hands to rip open the wall above his fireplace in an attempt to free a man wedged inside. The man later made it to safety, fire department spokesperson Pete Piringer said in a tweet that included footage of an ambulance.
Montgomery County Fire & Rescue didn't immediately respond to McClatchy News' requests for additional information on Jan. 10.
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