California woman gets stuck in chimney trying to sneak into home

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. Genoveva Nunez-Figueroa, 30, tried on Sunday to enter the Los Angeles-area house of a man, and started screaming for help when she got stuck. Firefighters who arrived found her about two metres down the chimney, which they took apart brick by brick down to the roof line. She was later arrested for illegal entry and providing false information to a police officer. The man said he met the woman online and that it was not the first time she had tried to enter his home.

She’s stuck in there and obviously she doesn’t need bricks falling down on her on top of that.

Ventura County Department spokesman Bill Nash