Man, 38, arrested days after getting stuck inside giant fan at California vineyard
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This photo provided by the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office shows a man who was found Tuesday at a vineyard in Santa Rosa by a sheriff’s deputy responding to a call about a suspicious vehicle parked in the area. Officials in Northern California rescued the man who said he had been trapped inside a large fan at a vineyard for two days.
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This photo provided by the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office shows a man who was found Tuesday at a vineyard in Santa Rosa by a sheriff’s deputy responding to a call about a suspicious vehicle parked in the area. Officials in Northern California rescued the man who said he had been trapped inside a large fan at a vineyard for two days.
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This photo provided by the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office shows a fan at a vineyard in Santa Rosa, Calif. where a man was found Tuesday by a sheriff’s deputy responding to a call about a suspicious vehicle parked in the area. Officials in Northern California rescued the man who said he had been trapped inside a large fan at a vineyard for two days.
SANTA ROSA, Calif. >> Authorities rescued a man who said he had been trapped for two days inside a large fan at a Northern California vineyard.
The man was discovered Tuesday by a deputy responding to a call about a suspicious vehicle parked near the winery in Santa Rosa, the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
The deputy saw a hat on a piece of farming equipment and then found the man stuck inside the shaft of a vineyard fan. Firefighters rescued him.
“The man indicated he liked to take pictures of the engines of old farm equipment,” the statement said. “After a thorough investigation, which revealed the farm equipment wasn’t antique and the man had far more methamphetamine than camera equipment, the motivation to climb into the fan shaft remains a total mystery.”
The 38-year-old man required medical treatment but is expected to make a full recovery, the office said.
The man will be charged with trespassing and drug possession, as well as violations of a probation case, the statement said.
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Vineyard fans are used to circulate air across vines to keep grapes from freezing during colder months.
