A man allegedly high on methamphetamine broke into a Modesto fire station Wednesday because he thought someone was after him.
Shortly after 10 p.m., firefighters at Station 1 on 11th Street heard someone ringing their doorbell, Operations Division Chief Michael Lillie said. When a firefighter went downstairs, he saw that the glass front door had been shattered.
The firefighter got the rest of his crew and they went outside to find a “man starting to walk away, covered in blood,” Lillie said. The man had cuts on his arms, presumably from smashing the front window.
“Based on the severity of the cuts on his arm, we are assuming he smashed it with arms and hands,” Lillie said.