{"id":317713,"date":"2010-02-13T19:17:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T00:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0128779bfdba970c"},"modified":"2010-02-13T19:17:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T00:17:20","slug":"tree-trimmer-dies-while-tethered-to-palm-tree-in-pasadena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/317713","title":{"rendered":"Tree trimmer dies while tethered to palm tree in Pasadena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tree trimmer died in Pasadena on Saturday as he was cutting dead fronds from a 60-foot palm tree, according to police.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The man was at the top of the tree when a witness heard him yell for help. He was tethered to the tree and suspended there until firefighters arrived and removed his body with a ladder, according to the Pasadena Police.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>It wasn&#8217;t immediately clear why he died, but a large quantity of fronds was discovered on top of him. &quot;He may have had a heart attack. He may have suffocated,&quot; Pasadena Police Lt. Thomas Delgado said. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The incident occurred about 11 a.m. at a private residence in the 500 block of South Oak Knoll Avenue. The witness went into the house to call 911 after hearing the man&#8217;s cries for help. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Police said the man&#8217;s identity had not yet been released to the public because family members had yet to be notified. He was, however, described as a Sun Valley resident. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>&#8212; Margot Roosevelt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tree trimmer died in Pasadena on Saturday as he was cutting dead fronds from a 60-foot palm tree, according to police.The man was at the top of the tree when a witness heard him yell for help. He was tethered to the tree and suspended there until firefighters arrived and removed his body with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}