By Joy Lim Nakrin for NBC Boston / Updated on August 16, 2020 at 11:51 pm
Neighbors worked together to free the woman, who was trapped by the tree. Eventually they pried open the window and they managed to get her out through there, Teddy Quintal said.
Neighbors rushed to help a Massachusetts woman on Sunday after a massive tree came crashing down on her home in Framingham while she was inside.
Crews were cutting the tree and clearing the damage after the incident, which happened on Rockridge Road just before 11 a.m.
Teddy Quintal is one of the woman’s neighbors who rushed into help. He says he was having brunch when he was suddenly alarmed by “this great crashing sound.”
“I was afraid,” he said.
Quintal says he ran immediately.
“I was the first one on the scene. I ran around to the side of the house because you couldn’t get at the front there was so much debris there was such a big part of the tree that was there,” he said. “I saw somebody moving inside and we had neighbors rushing up the street to try to get to that help as well.”
Neighbors worked together to free the woman, who was trapped by the tree. Eventually they pried open the window and they managed to get her out through there, Quintal said.
Neighbors say the woman lives alone and they knew they had to help. Quintal says she has been the next-door neighbor for 20 years and is a “very nice, very gentle woman.”
Witnesses say there was no storm, and the tree fell for no known reason.
“No warning at all,” Quintal said. “There was no wind. There was no heavy rain. it just all of a sudden, it just popped loose and fell on the house.” Read more from NBC Boston.
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