Man pulled from Des Plaines vent still in intensive care
Des Plaines police still are waiting to talk to a man who spent almost 24 hours stuck head first in an exhaust vent in the roof of the Little Amsterdam restaurant, which closed in June.
The man was rescued from the vent on Monday and is still in intensive care at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, police said today.
The building's landlord, Scott Hodlmair, was checking the property Monday morning when he saw a man's head and arms sticking from the vent over the restaurant's kitchen stove. Emergency personnel and had to cut open the vent leading from the rooftop to extricate the man, according to a news release.
No charges have been filed so far, but police assume the man was trying to break into the closed restaurant, said Cmdr. Dan Niemann of the Des Plaines Police Department.
"That's the obvious reason for him to be up there, but we haven't talked to him yet," Niemann said.
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