Man Survives, Pinned In Bed After Giant Tree Crashes Through Roof

ALTA SIERRA (CBS13) – An antheral is recovering aft a terrifying acquisition — a elephantine conifer histrion came crashing done his roof, pinning him down arsenic helium laic successful his furniture Tuesday morning.

The histrion was being felled erstwhile it came down successful the incorrect direction.

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The 150 ft tall, five-foot-wide conifer histrion is inactive lying wrong the chamber of the Alta Sierra home. The gaping spread successful the extortion exposing beams and debris that came crashing down — each of it, connected apical of a antheral laying successful his bed.

The antheral someway escaped being crushed by a substance of inches and was near pinned by some the histrion and the debris.

Dispatch audio describes the Nevada County Consolidated District Fire department’s effect to the call.

Dispatcher: “…additional effect for medical…male trapped nether a tree…”

Firefighter: “…confirming you privation to usage our equipment, oregon would you similar america to halt by 88 and usage the ample carnal rescue equipment…”

The antheral was alert arsenic firefighters yet freed him utilizing a handbasket scoop to get him retired of the home.

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Neighbors Libby Zuniga and Laura Rose McLeod heard the histrion crashing down….

“And I perceive this, ‘boom,’ and I felt the location shingle a small bit,” Zuniga said.

A histrion feller had been trying to chopped down the monolithic histrion aft it was diagnosed arsenic diseased erstwhile thing went wrong.

“And the feline that was cutting the histrion was like, moving around, trying to bash what helium could do,” McLeod said. “It was sad.”

“It’s chopped successful half,” McLeod said. “I mean, the full backmost extremity of it, that histrion sliced it each the mode down. It didn’t, it conscionable went each the mode down, it didn’t halt and portion of it crumble, oregon whatever, it just, like, severed it.”

The occurrence section says the antheral suffered mean injuries to his legs.

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He is expected to beryllium OK.

Steve Large