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Man rescued from 10 feet down inside Midtown chimney

Atlanta Fire Rescue are working to get a person out of chimney in northeast Atlanta on Saturday morning.

Credit: Atlanta Fire Rescue

Credit: Atlanta Fire Rescue

Atlanta Fire Rescue are working to get a person out of chimney in northeast Atlanta on Saturday morning.
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Feb 9, 2019

It appears Santa might’ve come to Midtown about a month late. However, firefighters didn’t receive any presents they wanted.

Instead, they had to rescue a man who ended up 10 feet down in a building’s chimney in northeast Atlanta on Saturday morning, Atlanta Fire Rescue spokesman Sgt. Cortez Stafford told Channel 2 Action News.

He said it began as an Atlanta police incident, where the man was running around on top of a roof in the 1100 block of Crescent Avenue.

Atlanta police told AJC.com he was threatening to jump from the roof before he wedged himself inside the chimney. Firefighters had to breach a wall in the attic to get inside and rescue him, Stafford said.

Police said he was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital with non-life-threatening injures. Charges are pending.

— Please return to AJC.com for updates.

In other news:

Police are looking for three people in a red Nissan Altima.

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