2-year-old boy killed when redwood tree falls on double-wide trailer
A 2-year-old boy has died after a redwood tree fell on a double-wide mobile home on Wednesday evening in California as a massive storm pummeled the state. A 2-and-a-half -year -old boy has died after a redwood tree fell on a double-wide mobile home on Wednesday evening in California as a massive storm pummeled the state, authorities say. The incident occurred in Occidental, California -- approximately 70 miles northwest of San Francisco in Sonoma County -- on Wednesday evening as hurricane-force winds battered parts of California as part of the bomb cyclone that has also brought heavy rains and flooding, according to Ron Lunardi, the fire chief in Occidental. MORE: Mom and 4 kids run over at school bus stop by driver trying to escape police “One of our major incidents we’ve had involved a redwood tree falling on a house … and we had a fatality up there of a minor -- infant, actually. A one-to-two -year old infant.” Lunardi said in an interview. The child was home with his mother an...