The Commack Fire Department was dispatched with Commack Ambulance to a report of a man electrocuted in a tree on Roberta Lane. Units arrived to find a 39 year old male deceased up in a tree. The victim had been trimming a tree, when, police say that one of his safety lines made contact with a high tension line. FD personnel accessed utilized ladder 1 to extinguish a fire in the tree and waited for PSE&G to terminate power to the area. Suffolk Police are handling the investigation. Click on the photo above for more information via Newsday.
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