{"id":284764,"date":"2026-04-25T01:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/284764\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T01:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:40:19","slug":"san-jose-worker-rescued-from-palm-tree-after-medical-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/284764\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose worker rescued from palm tree after medical emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEMERGENCY. THE GOVERNOR HAS DECLARED A STATE OF EMERGENCY. A TREE TRIMMER WAS SENT TO THE HOSPITAL IN THE BAY AREA TODAY AFTER SUFFERING SOME SORT OF MEDICAL EMERGENCY. THAT LED TO AN INCREDIBLE RESCUE. THE MAN WAS CUTTING A PALM TREE. THE SAN JOSE FIRE DEPARTMENT SAYS THE WORKER WAS ABOUT 75FT ABOVE THE GROUND. IT\u2019S NOT CLEAR WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WORKER. A LADDER COULD NOT REACH HIM, SO A HELICOPTER LOWERED A FIREFIGHTER TO RESCUE HIM. THE WORKER WAS SECURED AND\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Watch: San Jose worker rescued from palm tree after medical emergency<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 6:18 PM PDT Apr 24, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA man in San Jose was hospitalized in serious condition after suffering a medical emergency while trimming a palm tree. Video footage showed the man hanging upside down, 75 feet above the ground. The fire department said the worker was trimming the tree when he suffered a medical issue and was stuck up there for 90 minutes. A first responder had to dangle from a helicopter to secure the worker and bring him down.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tSAN JOSE, Calif. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

A man in San Jose was hospitalized in serious condition after suffering a medical emergency while trimming a palm tree. <\/p>\n

Video footage showed the man hanging upside down, 75 feet above the ground. <\/p>\n

The fire department said the worker was trimming the tree when he suffered a medical issue and was stuck up there for 90 minutes. <\/p>\n

A first responder had to dangle from a helicopter to secure the worker and bring him down.<\/p>\n

See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EMERGENCY. THE GOVERNOR HAS DECLARED A STATE OF EMERGENCY. A TREE TRIMMER WAS SENT TO THE HOSPITAL IN…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2820,23615,11057,2641,7775,1555,8117,68954,671,8814,68764,88,90,89,122094,669,2734,4409],"class_list":{"0":"post-284764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-app","9":"tag-download","10":"tag-fire-department","11":"tag-foot","12":"tag-ground","13":"tag-man","14":"tag-medical-emergency","15":"tag-medical-issue","16":"tag-more-coverage","17":"tag-morning-newsletter","18":"tag-palm-tree","19":"tag-san-jose","20":"tag-san-jose-headlines","21":"tag-san-jose-news","22":"tag-san-jose-worker","23":"tag-subscribe","24":"tag-top-california-story","25":"tag-video-footage"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}