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The pinned Curry Avenue homeowner was in cardiac arrest and bleeding heavily when police arrived shortly before 11 a.m.
He’s been trimming the tree with a gas-powered chainsaw when the limb fell, knocking him off a ladder more than 10 feet off the ground, responders said.
"His legs were pinned under the tree [limb] and he had to be extricated," Wildes said.
Firefighters used air bags to free the homeowner, who suffered a severely damaged right leg and chest trauma, among other injuries.
EMS took him to Hackensack University Medical Center, where Wildes said he was pronounced dead.
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