{"id":25782,"date":"2013-10-15T16:53:52","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T23:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/?p=25782"},"modified":"2014-01-13T13:10:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T20:10:21","slug":"trimming-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2013\/10\/15\/trimming-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Trimming Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_25761\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25761\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25761\" alt=\"Idyllwild Fire Protection District fire fighters trim the oak tree limbs off power lines and a propane tank at Suburban Propane at 54225 Ridge View Dr. Thursday. Capt. Mark LaMont, who was at the scene, said tree limbs that are not trimmed properly fill with water and ice, become too heavy and break off, causing damage to anything below. The enterprising public servants donated the sizable amount of wood to the HELP Center, said Chief Patrick Reitz. It\u2019s too wet to burn this season but next winter will be cold, too. Above, Firefighter\/EMT Logan Bates uses a chain saw atop a boom to trim thick branches from about 35 feet. The original call was for a power line down, across a propane tank. Responders found that a large branch broke, fell across a power line, causing the power line to break. Firefighters remained on scene until Southern California Edison arrived several hours later to fix the power line. Photo by Vince Lovato\" src=\"http:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Tree-trim-1tif-500x281.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Tree-trim-1tif-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Tree-trim-1tif-520x292.jpg 520w, https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Tree-trim-1tif.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Idyllwild Fire Protection District fire fighters trim the oak tree limbs off power lines and a propane tank at Suburban Propane at 54225 Ridge View Dr. Thursday. Capt. Mark LaMont, who was at the scene, said tree limbs that are not trimmed properly fill with water and ice, become too heavy and break off, causing damage to anything below. The enterprising public servants donated the sizable amount of wood to the HELP Center, said Chief Patrick Reitz. It\u2019s too wet to burn this season but next winter will be cold, too. Above, Firefighter\/EMT Logan Bates uses a chain saw atop a boom to trim thick branches from about 35 feet. The original call was for a power line down, across a propane tank. Responders found that a large branch broke, fell across a power line, causing the power line to break. Firefighters remained on scene until Southern California Edison arrived several hours later to fix the power line.\u00a0Those on scene were:\u00a0Robert Clark , Res. Engineer,\u00a0Greg Minor, Firefighter,\u00a0Logan Bates, Acting Engineer\u00a0Brandon Brousseau, Res. Firefighter.<br \/>Photo by Vince Lovato<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idyllwild Fire Protection District fire fighters trim the oak tree limbs off power lines and a propane tank at Suburban Propane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[20],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trimming Trees &#8226; Idyllwild Town Crier<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2013\/10\/15\/trimming-trees\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Idyllwild Town Crier\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2013\/10\/15\/trimming-trees\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2013\/10\/15\/trimming-trees\/\",\"name\":\"Trimming Trees &#8226; 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