Large tree falls into Sacramento apartment building. See the damage
A huge tree fell on an apartment building Thursday night in the Greenhaven neighborhood of Sacramento.
A resident of the Waverly Flats apartments at Riverside Boulevard and Greenhaven Drive, where the incident occurred around 8 p.m., said nobody was hurt.
Michael Grant told the Sacramento Bee that he knocked on the door of the apartment where the cork oak tree landed and the residents said they were fine and needed no help.
“I felt myself lift up a little bit,” Grant said, describing the incident. “I thought it was something that fell, not sure specifically what, but went outside for a moment and a few of my neighbors had come outside as well and we were all looking around.
“I couldn’t find it, so I just went back inside,” he said. “About two, three minutes later, one of my other neighbors came knocking on my door and asked me if I was aware that there was tree blocking our driveway. So we were all just discussing that and whether or not we were going to be able to get out by the morning.”
Grant said tree maintenance at the property had been neglected.
“Trees in the back weren’t pruned on time, so there were branches that had fallen off that are very heavy, that could have hurt children that were playing at the time when it fell,” he said. “So just a lot of neglect on this property, it seems like.”
Tree crews came out Friday morning before 8 a.m. to get rid of the fallen oak as it began to sprinkle.
