{"id":77594,"date":"2025-12-02T02:09:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/77594\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T02:09:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:09:16","slug":"tree-trimmer-impaled-after-falling-on-the-job-in-canoga-park-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/77594\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree trimmer impaled after falling on the job in Canoga Park \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tree trimmer fell to his death while on the job in Canoga Park on Monday, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>The tragedy was reported just before 3:30 p.m. along Canoga Avenue and Valerio Street. There, the man was impaled when he fell while working on large trees and landed atop an iron fence. <\/p>\n<p>LAFD said the man fell 35 feet and landed on the 10-foot fence. He died of his injuries at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An LAFD USAR team will utilize a high-angle rope system to carefully recover his body, which is currently covered by a sheet and shielded from public view by a tarp to preserve the decedent&#8217;s dignity,&#8221; LAFD said in a statement. &#8220;The Mayor&#8217;s Crisis Response Team is en route to the scene to provide emotional support to fellow workers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While first responders await the arrival of the Coroner\u2019s office, Valerio Street has been shut down.<\/p>\n<p>The identity of the tree trimmer was not released, but LAFD described him as a 44-year-old man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tree trimmer fell to his death while on the job in Canoga Park on Monday, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[27731,48,52,51,47,50,49,7611],"class_list":{"0":"post-77594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-canoga-park","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-headlines","11":"tag-la-news","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","14":"tag-los-angeles-news","15":"tag-san-fernando-valley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77594","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=77594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}