The Knoxville Fire Department on a different type of call, not to the scene of a fire and not a cat in the tree.

Saturday afternoon at 1:57 PM, the Knoxville Fire Department was called to an address on Vermont Avenue for a man stuck in a tree.

KFD crews successfully extricated the man from the tree and brought him safely to the ground, approximately 30 feet, within 1 hour of receiving the call.

Initially, the male appeared injured but later refused transport or medical care.

A critical piece of the puzzle in removing the man from the tree was the technical expertise of the KFD crew on the scene and the KFD tiller truck. Without this, the man would have likely been stuck for an extended period.