Woman arrested after trying to break into a home and getting stuck in the chimney

Woman arrested after trying to break into a home and getting stuck in the chimney
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That's not Santa Claus: A woman was arrested Sunday after getting trapped inside the chimney of a Thousand Oaks, California, home of a man she once dated.

At 5:45 a.m., a neighbor called and reported that a woman had been stuck in the chimney for about two hours. The Ventura County Fire Department's urban search and rescue team arrived at the house, and firefighters used jackhammers to dismantle part of the chimney and poured down dish soap to lubricate the flue, KTLA reports. The woman was finally extracted at 8:22 a.m., and transferred to an area hospital. Throughout the ordeal, Capt. Mike Lindbery posted pictures of the rescue to his Twitter account.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.