Thursday, November 8, 2007

Cherry Hill Ladder Tower Rescues Tree Worker





A Ladder Tower Truck, Rescue Truck, Ambulance and a Battalion Chief were dispatched to the 100 block of Ashford Road in the Wexford Leas section of the to to a report of a tree service worker trapped sixty feet in the air in a disabled aerial lift truck at about 11:00AM. The crew from the ladder tower quickly evaluated the situation and carefully placed their truck in the driveway of the home so that it would be able to make the rescue from the tree truck that was off the roadway in the homeowner's yard. Since the area was not large enough to set up the Ladder Tower; the Rescue company provided lumber to support the outriggers of the ladder that were not on a solid surface. The ladder tower's crew quickly raised their platform to the tree service truck bucket and safely transferred the stranded worker to the ladder tower platform and brought him down without injury.