Woman stuck in chimney trying to sneak into home

Los Angeles: A California woman who tried to sneak into a house through a chimney got stuck and had to be rescued by fire-fighters, who used dish soap to help extricate the soot-covered intruder, authorities said on Monday.

Local media say the woman, identified by police as Genoveva Nunez-Figueroa, 30, on Sunday tried to enter the Los Angeles-area house of a man she met online, and that when she got stuck, she started screaming for help.

Fire-fighters who arrived about two metres down the chimney; they took it apart brick by brick, down to the roof line, Ventura County Department spokesman Bill Nash said.