A climber trimming a palm was rescued by firefighters on May 6, 2021, in Spring Valley, California, after becoming stuck in a palm-frond skirt 70 feet up. Just before 7 p.m., residents reported hearing the worker yelling for help from the top of a palm after his leg had become stuck in the skirt of […]
A climber suffered a serious injury and had to be rescued after his chain saw kicked back while he was about 100 feet up on the spar of a tree on April 2, 2021, in Spokane, Washington. The man, a commercial tree trimmer, suffered significant injuries and was going in and out of consciousness, and […]
Fire crews rescued a tree climber stranded 70 feet up in a tree on April 2, 2021, in Snellville, Georgia. The climber was topping a tree behind a home when he somehow became stranded. Firefighters specially trained as rope-rescue technicians created a rope system to attach to the man, who did not appear to be […]
A climber was rescued from a tree on February 20, 2021, in Port Ludlow, Washington, after he realized, once aloft, that his ropes were too frayed to trust for the climb down. The Port Ludlow man had climbed 50 feet up the trunk, apparently cutting limbs as he went, according to photos. But at some […]
Firefighters took about an hour to free a climber whose leg was pinned by a fallen limb on November 7, 2020, in Fairfield, Connecticut. A crew from a tree company was working on a tree when a branch suddenly dropped as one of the workers was removing a large limb from an adjacent tree. The […]
