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Family members mourned the young man, who was described arsenic a 'son, brother, and uncle'
A MAN installing Christmas lights was electrocuted to decease successful a freak mishap that near him dangling upside down.
Antonio Pascual Mateo, 24, was near hanging, latched to his harness, from a histrion for an hr aft helium threw lights implicit a powerfulness line, which sparked an electrocution.
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Mateo had been moving connected installing Christmas lights connected the extortion of a location successful San Diego connected November 21 erstwhile helium died successful a freak accident.
The Escondido Fire Department responded to the country and recovered a "worker suspended successful the aerial via a waist harness.
"It appeared that helium had travel successful interaction with immoderate high-power hostility lines," occurrence officials told Fox affiliate KSWB-TV.
Mateo was near dangling from the histrion for an hr arsenic occurrence officials waited for San Diego Gas & Electric crews to unopen disconnected the powerfulness successful the country earlier rescuing the man.
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First responders rushed Mateo to Palomar Medical Center, wherever helium was pronounced dead.
A aesculapian examiner ruled Mateo's decease an mishap aft helium electrocuted erstwhile helium threw lights implicit a high-voltage powerfulness line.
Family members organized a GoFundMe to rise ceremonial arrangements for Mateo's assemblage to beryllium returned to Guatemala.
"[Mateo] was a brother, a son, and a uncle," the station read.
"His sanction was Antonio Pascual. He had truthful overmuch to live, lone 24 years old.
"He had been moving connected putting up Christmas lights astir the tree. He ever took attraction of his parent and family.
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"Sadly helium was electrocuted by the powerfulness lines, arsenic helium was fixing the Christmas lights. He fell down and stayed successful the tree, trapped for an hour.
"Rescue squad was forced to hold until the powerfulness institution had to crook disconnected power. To precocious to save, everlastingly young helium volition remain.
"Christmas lights everlastingly having a meaning to us, helium volition stay successful our hearts for eternity."
As of Wednesday, the household has raised astir $13,500 of its $20,000 goal.
Jay Hobson, the proprietor of The Holiday Lighters, warned others ne'er to bent up Christmas lights portion plugged into an electrical outlet.
"Organize your stuff. Taking your clip is the best," Hobson told KSWB-TV.
Emelio Linares, a Christlight installer and proprietor of SD Light Guys, besides cautioned to instrumentality your clip installing lights.
"If you're ever successful uncertainty erstwhile it comes to electrical, instrumentality a second, reassess," helium added.
Christmas decorating information tips
On average, determination are astir 160 Christmas decorating-related injuries each time during the vacation season, according to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (UPSC).
The UPSC has shared immoderate information tips you should see erstwhile decorating your location for the holidays:
- Ensure your unrecorded Christmas histrion has plentifulness of water, and ticker for the "fire resistant" level erstwhile buying an artificial tree.
- Never permission candles unattended.
- Place burning candles successful sight, distant from flammable items.
- Blow retired oregon sniff candles retired earlier leaving a country oregon home.
- Never drawstring unneurotic much than 3 sets of incandescent lights.
- Never overload electrical outlets, which tin spark a fire.
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