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A man in Pensacola had to be rescued by a SWAT team after he climbed up a tree and refused to come down, the Pensacola News Journal reported.
The unidentified 32-year-old man began to climb the tree around 10:45 a.m. Thursday after loitering near a restaurant on West Belmont Street, according to Pensacola police. Employees of the restaurant called police, “concerned for the man’s safety,” the News Journal reported.
The man climbed up about 30 feet and remained in the tree for almost three hours. A crisis negotiator tried to convince the man to come down for about an hour and a half. The man stayed in the tree until around 1:30 p.m., when he agreed to let SWAT officers rescue him with a bucket on a fire department truck.
“As SWAT officers got close to him, the man changed his mind and said he’d climb down,” Capt. Chuck Mallet told the News Journal.
SWAT officers eventually brought him down in the bucket when it looked like he was going to fall.
The man faces no charges and is being medically evaluated.
Read more at pnj.com
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