Tree Falls on Woman near Mission Bay

A woman was rushed to the hospital Sunday after part of a tree fell on her in Mission Bay.

Witnesses say the woman was walking with her husband near the De Anza Cove boat launch around 7 p.m. when a ten-foot section of the tree suddenly snapped and fell.

People spending Sunday afternoon near the bay heard a cracking noise just before the tree came crashing down.

โ€œI heard kind of like a scrape at first and then it kind of expanded into like a large crack,โ€ said Jonathon Rubio. โ€œWe all just turned around and we seen the branch almost, it was about to fall, and it started cracking and it came down super quick.โ€

About 50 people holding a family reunion nearby jumped into action and pulled the woman out.

Jesse Galvan said he and his family members dove in to try and help out. โ€œThe husband got out and we ran in there to help him out, to try and lift the tree up,โ€ Galvan said.

It was such a large limb, Rubio said there was no way they could move it.

There was a nurse at the scene and helped treat an injury to the womanโ€™s face and a broken bone in her leg, Rubio said.

San Diego police put cones and police tape up near where the limb fell to keep pedestrians and bicyclists away from the area.
 

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