Tree cutter rescued after being pinned, dangling in air in Wake County

  • Source: WRAL-TV CBS 5 Raleigh
  • Published: 07/13/2019 05:37 PM

VIDEO: Firefighters say a worker was pinned high up in a tree for more than an hour on Saturday. They said the man was trying to cut a large limb out of a tree behind a home on Lauren Oaks Drive in Wake County, which is about 10 miles northeast of Interstate 540. The limb pinned his arm against the tree. Rescuers found him dangling 35 feet in the air. Wake New Hope Fire Department Chief Lee Price said getting him down was not easy. "He cut the limb and the limb actually pinned his arm against the tree," Price said. "It was about an 8-inch and it covered this whole area (of his arm). And he was pinned up in the tree and didn't have any other way of him holding on besides his hand and him pinned by that arm.



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