| ‘She’s Lucky She’s Alive:’ Woman Pinned When Massive Tree Falls In Ridgewood, NJ |
Powerful winds took down a tree Saturday morning in New Jersey, pinning a woman underneath.
First responders rushed to help the 44-year-old woman after her leg became trapped under a big branch.
“She’s lucky she’s alive, because if it had hit her, obviously, in the upper torso or head… she was partially on the street, partially on the grassy area between the curb and the sidewalk,” neighbor Chris Sargente told CBS2’s Erin Logan.
He and Kathy Skrzypczak live on the corner of Woodland Avenue and Heights Road in Ridgewood, where the massive tree fell. They went over to help when they heard a scream.
“There wasn’t much we could do, because she’s pinned. But we were just trying to make her feel comfortable, and someone called her husband,” Skrzypczak said.
They told Logan the woman was walking her dog with a friend and just happened to pass by a home under construction when the tree came crashing down.
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