7/15/13 - A 70-year-old man had to be rescued from the top of a tree by Fenton Firefighters last week. The senior citizen had been trimming the tree at about on July 10th when he got caught in a fork in the branches and suffered a broken ankle. The Tri County Times reports that Fenton firefighters got the call at about 5:10pm and within five minutes they were on the scene, where they found the man about 65 feet in the air. Firefighters accessed the top of the tree using the basket on their ladder truck. They lowered the man to safety using an orange rescue basket about an hour after they first received the call. The Fenton fire chief says tree-climbing equipment used by the department was essential to the rescue. (TD)
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