Man threatens to jump off chimney after being fired
Phoenicia glass factory employee spends six hours high above police and paramedics before agreeing to come down
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An Israeli man who was fired from his factory job on Tuesday climbed up a chimney and threatened to commit suicide, holding off police for six hours until deciding to climb down.
The man, 37 years old, received his pink slip Tuesday morning from the Phoenicia glass factory near Nazareth. He scrambled up the 80-meter tall chimney, and refused to leave his perch. It took hours of negotiations with police and members of the Magen David Adom rescue service to convince him to come down.
At one point, a police officer on the negotiating team began to climb the chimney as well, according to Channel 2.
The employee, from Haifa’s Krayot suburbs, was taken for a psychological evaluation after he finally descended.
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