Teen second person in week to get stuck in chimney in Calif.
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. -- Los Angeles County firefighters freed a 13-year-old girl who was stuck in a chimney at a home.
Officials say crews responded Tuesday night and freed the girl in about 15 minutes. She was taken to a hospital to be examined.
There was no immediate word on her condition or how she got stuck in the chimney of the suburban LA home.
City News Service says it was the second time in less than a week that someone became stuck in a chimney in LA County.
On Friday, a woman found herself in a bit of a jam after trying to enter her locked Pomona house through the chimney, CBS Los Angeles reported.
The 20-year-old apparently left her keys inside her house and decided to climb down the chimney to get back into her home.
Neighbors said they knew something was wrong when they heard the screams for help.
"I called the police and they came, and they broke the chimney," neighbor Jose Rodriguez told CBS LA.
Rodriguez said he was in his front yard with his daughter when he heard the cries for help.
"I guess she forgot her keys, and she thought she was skinny enough to fit in the chimney," the woman's sister Ivanna Moreno said.
Firefighters had to tear down the chimney brick by brick to get the woman out.
LA County Fire said the young woman was trapped in the chimney for five hours.
Jose Juarez saw the woman moments after rescuers pulled her from the rubble.
"She was coming out with a lot of black stuff, like soot," Juarez said.
The woman was taken to a nearby hospital and treated with minor injuries.
She returned home on Friday night.