Four Wichita police officers had to be treated for smoke inhalation after a burglar set a fire inside a detached garage at a northeast Wichita home.
Officer Charley Davidson said in a press release that officers were called to a burglary in progress on North Crestview Lake, near 21st and Oliver, around 9:40 p.m. Sunday Officers found that a door had been barricaded from inside. They were able to push their way into the garage and found that a suspect had locked himself inside a room. The discovered that a fire had been set, and they called for fire units. Fire crews were able to get the 42-year-old suspect out of the locked room and he was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
Four officers were treated and released at a hospital after the incident.
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