A man gets stuck in a chimney for 10 HOURS while trying to hide from police

A squatter attempting to hide from police got himself into a tight situation when he became stuck in a chimney for 10 hours.
The unidentified man was reportedly trying to evade police who were responding to reports of squatters in a Fresno, California, neighbourhood on Thursday night.
Concerned residents alerted authorities when they heard whimpering and cries for help coming from a supposedly empty home in the early hours of Friday morning.

Rescue effort: Firefighters had to work for half an hour to rescue the man who had become trapped 

Hospitalized: The unidentified man was taken to hospital following his 10-hour ordeal

'I tried to see if it was on the inside, on top, or maybe in the basement or in the attic,' Lito Acosta, a resident, told CBS47.
'I thought somebody was in there crying, and sure enough there was,' she added.

 

Firefighters had to work for half an hour to rescue the man who had become trapped at the point where the chimney took a right-angle turn above the fireplace, according to the Fresno Bee.
‘We couldn't gain access to the patient in order to put a harness on him or attach the line so we communicated with him and instead told him to do that for himself,’ Thomas Cope of the Fresno Fire Department told CBS47.

Difficult: Firefighters could not gain access to the man so asked him to put a harness on himself

Injured: The man was taken to hospital suffering from dehydration, cuts and bruises, and neck and back injuries

If their plan had failed, firefighters would have been forced to tear the chimney down, according to the station.

The vacant home reportedly was under construction and had a for sale sign outside of it.
The man was taken to hospital suffering from dehydration, cuts and bruises, and neck and back injuries.