{"id":233160,"date":"2026-07-01T20:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/233160\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T20:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:58:08","slug":"tree-limb-kills-80-year-old-homeowner-while-trimming-tree-in-pa-coroner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/233160\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree Limb Kills 80-Year-Old Homeowner While Trimming Tree In PA: Coroner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Paul Glass was using a pole saw while standing on a ladder at a home in the 1000 block of Mahlon Drive in Bern Township when a tree limb fell and struck him, causing both him and the ladder to crash to the ground, Berks County Coroner Matthew J. Stitzel said. <\/p>\n<p>Berks County 911 received the call for a reported fall victim at 5:09 p.m. Tuesday, June 30, according to the coroner. <\/p>\n<p>Glass was pronounced dead at the scene at 5:53 p.m., the coroner said. <\/p>\n<p>His cause of death was determined to be blunt force trauma and traumatic asphyxiation. The manner of death was ruled accidental. <\/p>\n<p>Details about Donald&#8217;s life are not yet available. Family, friends, and loved ones are invited to share memories, photos, and information by emailing <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyvoice.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"8ee4fee7e5e1fcefceeaefe7e2f7f8e1e7edeba0ede1e3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"e-click-here-follow-btn\" data-testid=\"bottom-paragraph\">\n            <a class=\"e-email-signup\" js-follow-button=\"\" data-testid=\"article-click-here-to-subscribe\">Click here<\/a><br \/>\n            to follow Daily Voice<\/p>\n<p>              Allentown<\/p>\n<p>            and receive free news updates.\n          <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Paul Glass was using a pole saw while standing on a ladder at a home in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-233160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}