Tragic news out of Seattle as a man was reportedly electrocuted while climbing a 200-foot tower, after touching a high-voltage power line and falling to a platform.
According to the Washington Post, a Seattle Fire Department team recovered the body with a cap and a cellphone but nothing indicating why he climbed the tower in the first place, said department spokesman Kyle Moore.
According to Moore there was no one present at the scene who knew the man. The King County medical examiner's office has taken the body to their facility to determine his identification and cause of death.
"We don't know why he climbed the tower," said police spokesman Renee Witt. "There's nothing to indicate it was something other than an accidental death from trespassing."
The fire department first responded to a report around 12:30 a.m. Friday of what was thought to be a transformer fire on the tower that carries 120,000-volt lines across the Lake Washington Ship Canal in the Fremont neighborhood.
It was later followed by reports of witnesses seeing a flash of crackling sparks and a man falling.
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