Crime & Safety
Barricaded Man With Gasoline Threatens to Torch Himself
SWAT Team, FIrefighters in four hour stand-off Limerick Sunday.
SWAT Teams, Police and fire departments raced to a house where a man had poured gasoline and was threatening to harm himself Sunday, according to media report.
Emergency response vehicles responded to a home near Faust Lane and Fruitville Road in Limerick Township for the report that a man poured gasoline in his house and threatened to harm himself on Sunday afternoon.
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Limerick police, fire agencies, the Ches-Mont Emergency Response Team (CMERT), and an armored SWAT vehicle were on the scene before the man came out peacefully around 3:20 p.m., according to the Pottstown Mercury.
The incident was reported before 11 a.m., according to the Montgomery County Department of Public Safety.
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The barricaded subject was a 40-year-old male “mental health consumer,” according to the Limerick Township Police.
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