East Bridgewater emergency services save worker stuck in tree

EAST BRIDGEWATER, Mass. (WLNE) — The East Bridgewater Police Department said that officers and firefighters saves an injured tree worker who was stuck nearly 50 feet in the air.

Emergency personnel responded to the area of Northridge Drive around 11 a.m. to find the victim 47 feet in the air in a tree in the backyard of a home.

Police said the worker, who was secured in a safety harness, had climbed the tree using shoe spikes and was operating a chainsaw when a falling piece of the tree broke his arm.

The Plymouth County Technical Rescue Team was called in and used a 35-foot ground ladder, ropes, pulleys, and harnesses to reach the tree worker, who was then secured to a harness and lowered to the ground.

The department said the worker was treated at the scene and transported by ambulance to a nearby landing zone, where he was then transported via medical helicopter to Tufts Medical Center in Boston.