No one had heard from Jonathan Metz in days. When police went into his house they got a big surprise - the missing man was stuck in the furnace of his own home. "I got an e-mail from one of his friends at work who said that he hadn't showed up at work for a couple of days so I popped by to see what was going on," Luca DiGregorio said. "He wasn't at our softball game last night."
Friends say Metz has lived in his house for years. They also say he's a quiet guy. But when he didn't answer his phone or return messages they knew something was wrong. "I saw his car here. I rang the door bell, no one answered. Checked the front door, it was locked," DiGregorio said. "I went around back and I saw the dog in the back and I didn't really know what else to do so I called the cops." It turns out Metz was trapped in his basement. His arm was stuck in the furnace for at least three days.
Firefighters say they didn't know what to make of the call. They brought everybody and everything in, including the ladder truck which had the heavy rescue tools on board. "We actually used hand tools and we also used the spreader that we would normally use to take the door off a car," West Hartford Fire Chief Matt Stuart said. "It's a very unusual call," Chief Stuart said.
Firefighters said it took almost a half hour to dismantle and cut apart the furnace. Metz was mumbling a little, so they aren't sure how long he had been trapped. Doctors at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford report that Jonathan Metz's left arm had to be amputated. Metz is currently listed in 'stable' condition in the surgical intensive care unit, a hospital spokesman said.
3 comments:
That's the downside of the freedom and privacy of living by yourself, it can be dangerous. I sometimes wonder how long it would take for my family and friends to come look for me if I slipped in the shower and broke my neck or something. I fear it could be days, I really don't want to find out. Yikes!
Glad I'm not the only one to be concerned by that, Insolitus.
I bet most little things like this that people think make them weird are actually pretty ordinary. It's in the big things the true oddness resides.
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