Here's the story of Andrew Forrest, the Aurora man who was severely shocked while hanging Christmas lights for his job. He spent 11 days in the hospital, and since then has endured around three dozen surgeries aimed at repairing some of the damage.
Andrew Forrest had no idea how much danger he faced when he climbed into a boom lift and ascended some 80 feet to hang Christmas lights at an Englewood home three years ago.
On Dec. 3, 2019, Forrest climbed into a boom lift outside the Englewood home and Fancher steered it beside a tree, close to overhead power lines. Fancher shouted a casual warning to stay clear of the power lines, Forrest said. “Anyone can clip on a house,” he said. “Trees are where the art form is… I’m not thinking about the potential of hitting power lines, I’m just focused on hanging the tree and moving the bucket.”Forrest saw a spark and felt the electricity and tried to move away, but as he did his pole fell over and into the lines. Electricity shot through the pole, into the metal lift Forrest stood in, and into his body.
“It wiped out my body,” Forrest said. “Everything about who I was before is gone. I’m definitely a whole different person as a result of it. It just changes you emotionally, spiritually and physically.” Fancher claimed to be an electrician, Forrest said, but records show Fancher is not a licensed electrician in Colorado or in Wyoming.
That company became delinquent in 2009, state records show. Next came Complete Signs LLC, registered to Fancher in 2008 and delinquent in 2014; that company was sued in 2016 for failing to pay rent. Another company, Easy Channel Letters LLC, was registered to Fancher in 2008 and became delinquent in 2010, after being sued for a bounced check in 2009.
“What he does is, once he starts having issues with not paying bills or lawsuits, he just changes the name and keeps it going,” Forrest said. He was accused of assuming the “false or fictitious identity” of a Lake Dillon Fire District firefighter, according to charging documents, and of attempting to deceive two police officers. Fancher pleaded guilty to attempting to influence a public servant as part of a deferred judgment; the other two charges were dismissed, records show.“I never impersonated a Fire Fire FireFighter ,” he wrote. “You need to check your facts on the arrest.
“I don’t know if I blame him for it, because ultimately I went up in the bucket and I didn’t use good judgment,” Forrest said. “But I blame him for — I feel like he took advantage of me… He threw me in there when there was a live power line and he knew the damage it could do and he didn’t get the power turned off prior to.”
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