Fire departments often find that tree-worker rescue might be a blind spot for them. Photos courtesy of the author. About two years ago, Kevin Lunnie, co-founder of Vector Rescue, and his business partner, James Croswell, started looking at the kind [...]

Stay Out From Under a Raised Crane Pick Es muy importante estar alerta cuando se mueven grandes piezas de arboles por encima. Foto del personal de TCIA.It is very important to stay alert when big tree pieces are moving overhead. [...]

The P31 Enterprises hazard- tree-cutting crew for the 2020 North Complex Fire in Northern California included Josh Cox, left, feller/ground worker, and Kenneth Jones, climber/feller. All photos courtesy of the author. It’s hard to go through a news cycle these [...]

Type & number of incidents for July 2021. Worker killed felling tree A tree worker died July 1, 2021, in Orlando, Florida, when a tree he was removing for a local church fell on him. The church had hired a [...]

Those directly involved in the tree care industry or, more specifically, in utility-vegetation management can play a role in preventing, or causing, wildfires. Photo courtesy of Josh Caudill. A wildfire can be caused in an instant – a lightning strike, [...]