A man was hospitalized in serious condition after experiencing medical distress while stuck about 20 feet up a tree in the Hollywood Hills on Sunday afternoon.
The Los Angeles Fire Department reported the incident at 2:13 p.m., sending crews to rescue the man in the Mt. Olympus neighborhood.
Upon arrival, first responders found a man, estimated to be 30 years old, stuck in a tree canopy near 2325 N. Mt. Olympus Dr.
Officials did not further explain the man’s “medical distress,” but made it clear he was in danger being stuck about 20 feet above the ground. It was not revealed why the man was in the tree or how he got there.
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Crews are seen rescuing a man in medical distress who got stuck about 20 feet up a tree in the Hollywood Hills. June 2025. (Citizen.com) -
Crews are seen rescuing a man in medical distress who got stuck about 20 feet up a tree in the Hollywood Hills. June 2025. (Citizen.com) -
Crews are seen rescuing a man in medical distress who got stuck about 20 feet up a tree in the Hollywood Hills. June 2025. (Citizen.com) -
Crews are seen rescuing a man in medical distress who got stuck about 20 feet up a tree in the Hollywood Hills. June 2025. (Citizen.com)
Footage from Citizen.com showed crews using an aerial ladder to lower a firefighter, who was holding a rope, into the tree canopy.
“The incident was upgraded and LAFD Urban Search and Rescue-trained firefighters conducted a rescue operation, safely extricating the patient from the trees,” the department said in an alert.
Details are limited, but LAFD said the patient was ultimately transported to a hospital in serious condition. His identity was not immediately made available.
