FRAMINGHAM, Mass. — A close call in Framingham after a tree crashed onto a home, trapping the homeowner inside.
“We’re sitting out in the backyard and we heard this crack, cracking noise,” said Frank Digiandomenico, who lives nearby.
Digiandomenico and his son ran to help a woman stuck inside her home after the large tree came crashing down onto the roof of her home on Rockridge Road.
As the roof caved in from the tree, a few neighbors were able to pull the 80-year-old woman out of the house through a window to safety.
“A lot of neighbors were out, there was a group of four of us that kind of ran around every window,” said Digiandomenico. “We knew she was in there because both cars were in the driveway.”
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“We saw her moving around inside the house and we got her to go to a front window,” Digiandomenico said. “We were able to open up the front window, another neighbor got inside to help her get outside, my son and I took her from the outside.”
“Very sad to see a family friend of 40-plus years’ home destroyed,” said Jonathan Fields, a family friend of the homeowner.
Fields said that he’s glad his family friend is okay, but it’s been a challenge to help her find another place to stay in this pandemic.
“Well that’s the scary thing because we are having a difficult time trying to figure out what to do with her and where she’s going to go,” he said.
Eventually the homeowner found a family friend to stay with as the cleanup to her house continues into Sunday night – all because of a rotting tree.