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It was a happy ending:
Trapped beneath a pile of bricks in her home, Lucille Kimball turned to her Internet “comfort zone” for rescue.
Kimball, 70, of Auburn, Neb., hadn’t been able to sleep so she was sitting up in a recliner about midnight Aug. 21 when the chimney in her living room crashed down, pinning her in the chair.
Her left leg was bleeding and she felt “terrible, terrible pain” as she tried to decide what to do.
Fortunately, family members had rigged a laptop computer next to the recliner so she can play games. With her left hand free, Kimball began to tap out a plea for help in a chat room for canasta players.
“I couldn’t get the chimney to roll off my leg,” Kimball said Thursday from a room at the Nebraska Medical Center. “That’s when I went to my comfort zone and began typing ‘Please, help me’ in one of the chat rooms.”