FDNY Rescues Drunken Partygoer From Inside Chimney in Chinatown

CHINATOWN, NY — FDNY rescued a Brooklyn man from inside a chimney of a building in Chinatown early Saturday morning.

Geoffroy Massuelle, 28, was on the roof of a building on the corner of Canal and Allen St. smoking a cigarette at around 7:30 a.m. when he realized he and his friends were locked out.

Massuelle made it approximately 13 feet down the chimney before he got stuck, the FDNY said. The chimney stuck out about eight feet above the roof.

FDNY entered the building and smashed a bathroom wall on the seventh floor to reach the chimney from inside the wall, but he ended up climbing a life saving rope that other firefighters dropped down the chimney.

“I think he did something he regretted. I think he was more embarrassed than anything else. He realized he couldn't get out without our help,” FDNY Chief John Spillane told the New York Daily News.

According to the New York Daily News, Massuelle’s girlfriend originally followed him down the chimney, but turned around when she realized she would get stuck.

Both Massuelle and his girlfriend escaped the chimney unharmed. Massuelle was brought to Bellevue Hospital to treat minor scrapes.

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