FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - Rescue crews rushed a landscaper to the hospital after he was shocked by a power line in a Fort Lauderdale neighborhood.
According to Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue, the victim, who is in his 70s, was picking ripe mangoes off a tree along the 700 block of Northeast 15th Court when the apparatus he was using made contact with a power line, Thursday morning.
Paramedics transported the victim, known by neighbors as Mr. Gabriel, to Broward Health Medical Center in critical condition.
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