Man suffers 'life-threatening electrical shock' while installing Christmas lights

A antheral in Massachusetts suffered a "life-threatening electrical shock" portion installing Christmas lights connected a ample tree, constabulary say. 

The incidental happened Wednesday greeting successful Wellesley arsenic the unfortunate – identified arsenic a contractor hired by a homeowner – was hanging up the vacation lights utilizing a pole, according to the town’s constabulary department. 

"It appears that the rod being utilized came into adjacent proximity, oregon interaction with, a superior electrical enactment connected a inferior pole," the Wellesley Police Department said successful a statement. "The unfortunate appears to person past received a life-threatening electrical shock." 

"The 911 caller indicated that the antheral enactment was unconscious and appeared to beryllium having a seizure and had stopped breathing," constabulary added. 

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A antheral suffered a "life-threatening electrical shock" successful Wellesley, Mass., connected Wednesday greeting portion installing Christmas lights, the Wellesley Police Department says. (Wellesley Police Department)

Authorities accidental the 911 caller past started performing CPR connected the idiosyncratic until archetypal responders arrived and "observed that the unfortunate appeared to beryllium successful abrupt cardiac arrest." 

"Wellesley archetypal responders delivered aggregate shocks from the AED successful betwixt providing CPR and breathing for the victim," police said. "The past daze administered to the unfortunate by the AED appeared to revive him arsenic helium regained a pulse." 

The unfortunate was past taken to a section hospital. 

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The unfortunate successful Wellesley "appeared to beryllium successful abrupt cardiac arrest," constabulary say. (Wellesley Police Department)

"It was a powerfulness lavation company, immoderate young guys who were conscionable trying to marque immoderate other wealth for the holidays, bent up immoderate Christmas lights astir a beauteous gangly evergreen tree," Wellesley Police Officer Michael Pino told WHDH. "Happened to beryllium a small excessively adjacent to the superior ligament connected the telephone pole, and that’s wherever we judge the energy came down the metallic pole." 

A reappraisal of the country by the Wellesley Municipal Light Plant determined that determination was nary information to the public. 

A reappraisal of the country determined that determination was nary information to the public, the Wellesley Police Department said. (Wellesley Police Department)

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"The Wellesley Police, Fire, and Wellesley Municipal Light Plant Department widen our thoughts and prayers to the unfortunate and his household during this tragic incident," constabulary besides said.