Friend Electrocuted While Cutting Tree for Family in Simi

A 46-year-old man was electrocuted Friday when the chain saw he was using to trim a tree in a friend’s yard in Simi Valley came in contact with a high-voltage wire, police said.

Simi Valley Police Sgt. Neal Rein said Arthur H. Campos, 46, was found dead in the tree about 4 p.m. by Terry Cruz, 17, who had gone to the backyard of the family home to check on Campos’ progress.

Police said Campos’ driver’s license showed an address on Filmore Street in Arleta, but that friends of the man said he had recently moved and did not know his new address.

Campos cut a wet branch high in the tree, which came in contact with the wire, police said, and the current traveled through the moisture to the chain saw in Campos’ hands.