Emergency Crews Rescue Man Suspended from Tree (Video)

July 3, 2019 - Center Police Officers and Center Fire Department Firemen responded to the call when they received reports a man was dangling from a tree on Wheeler Street in Center Wednesday, July 3, 2019.

When the emergency personnel arrived at the house located at the 300 block of Wheeler Street they found a man suspended in the air by a rope above a pickup truck.

With the addition of EMS personnel, the crews worked together and freed the man from his predicament and safely lowered him onto the pickup truck.

After he was assessed by EMS, he refused medical treatment and appeared unharmed by the situation.

The man had been working to cut a tree branch when he became entangled in the rope, and reportedly dangled there for around 30 minutes before help was alerted.