Houston fire crews got an unusual call Friday morning after finding a woman who was stuck in an air vent of a home.
Firefighters arrived to the scene just before 4:30 a.m. at the 2300 block of Parker Road and Aldine Westfield Road after a man called 911 about screaming noises he heard from the house.
“I thought it was a fight,” Arthur Reyes said when he heard the screaming.
“What are you doing up there,” Reyes said to the woman in the vent.
He asked her if she was trying to break into the home, but he said that she responded by asking him to get her a bottle of water.
Reyes said he rode his bike to a nearby gas station to tell the clerk and called 911.
“There’s someone in that place up there, stuck man. We gotta get her out,” Reyes said.
Reyes directed the firefighters to the home and told them where he heard the screaming.
Firefighters had to go inside the house and cut a hole in a vent to pull her out. It took about 20 minutes to rescue the woman.
Firefighters said that the woman doesn’t remember getting in the vent.
The home was vacant.
The woman was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
The property owner has been contacted about the incident.
There’s no word on if charges will be filed yet.
