Pantless man rescued from kitchen vent after New Year's Eve celebrating
STROUDSBURG — A West Chester man celebrated 2008 by getting himself stuck in a kitchen vent at the Pocono Inn Towne, police said.
Dylan Sczechowicz, 22, was charged with disorderly conduct and public drunkenness after firefighters started their new year by getting him out of a greasy kitchen vent.
The incident happened shortly after 2 a.m. Tuesday.
Hotel staff told police that Sczechowicz had been shown the door at the Front Row bar Monday night. He apparently tried to get back in by taking off his pants and sliding into a vent on the roof, according to police reports.
Sczechowicz went down the vent and got trapped, screaming for help before finally being discovered several hours later.
Firefighters responded to the call and cut power to that part of the building, said Stroudsburg Fire Chief Butch Kochanski. Firefighters removed the vent cover and tried unsuccessfully to use ropes to reach Sczechowicz, who was about 12 feet down, Kochanski said.
When that failed, firefighters went into the building and into a room through which the vent passes on its way to the kitchen.
There, they cut out a section from the side of the vent and freed Sczechowicz, who was covered with cooking grease, Kochanski said.
Sczechowicz reportedly was naked from the waist down, but Kochanski said he might have had boxer shorts on. Either way, firefighters gave him a towel to wrap around himself.
"He's lucky," said hotel manager Frank Brown. "If no one had heard him calling help, he could have stayed there until he froze. Or, when our kitchen staff came in later that morning and turned everything on, he could have been burned."
Kochanski called this an unusual type of rescue.
"It's definitely one for the books," the chief said.
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