Police released the body camera footage and 911 call in connection with the case of a Connecticut man who told officers he started a fire in order to escape the small room he had been locked away in by his stepmother for more than two decades.

NBC Connecticut obtained video of police rescuing a man who said his stepmother had held him captive inside their home for 20 years.

Police say the man used hand sanitizer and a lighter to set the fire as a way to draw first responders and escape being locked in his room for two decades.