A 35-year-old tree-trimmer named Roberto Garcia was about 40 feet up a palm tree in Glendora on Saturday when tragedy struck: A ring of dead fronds, which he had been trying to sever from the ...

THE FAMILY TREE: The bride is the daughter of Tamberly and Thomas Wright of Wilmington; the groom is the son of Kay and John Storck of Kona, Hawaii, and Duke Doudna of San Diego, California.

A tree trimmer working north of Gardena was rescued Friday when a ring of palm fronds collapsed around him, pinning him to the tree trunk 35 feet off the ground. The 30-year-old man’s colleagues ...

A tree trimmer working north of Gardena was rescued Friday when a ring of palm fronds collapsed around him, pinning him to the tree trunk 35 feet off the ground. The 30-year-old man’s colleagues ...

The point from which the frond is cut should be sealed by using a mixture of insecticides or sealant, since this weevil is attracted to fresh lesions in the palm tree.

A tree trimmer working north of Gardena was rescued Friday when a ring of palm fronds collapsed around him, pinning him to the tree trunk 35 feet off the ground. The 30-year-old man’s colleagues ...