Reporter, Photographer Recovering After Tree Fell on Them

A reporter lay injured beneath a canopy of branches. In a 911 call, you can overhear her cries for help, as her news photographer is on the phone with a dispatcher.

“I’m scared, Mike. My back hurts. Mike, I’m scared,” you can hear her saying in the emergency call released by 10 News.

Marie Coronel, the reporter for 10 News, and photographer Mike Gold were soon rescued by emergency responders after suffering grave injuries on Monday morning while covering the storm in Mira Mesa. They were both crushed by a falling tree as they prepared to go on live TV.

This week, 10 News has reported the two are expected to make a full recovery.

In a newly released 911 call and in an interview with the San Diego Union Tribune, the tense and uncertain moments are apparent.

“At that moment she was in shock and terrified she was going to die,” Gold told the U-T in a recent interview.

In the 911 call, Gold tells the dispatcher simply: "We got hit by a tree.”

“One of them fell down on us,” he says. “I’m talking to you with a busted leg. My reporter is on the ground and she’s scared.”

As the dispatcher tells Gold that both of them should stay still, Coronel repeats that she’s scared and Gold is then heard comforting her.

“Hold me,” Coronel is heard saying.

“I’m right with you, Marie,” Gold says.

Gold had to direct emergency responders to the two’s whereabouts as it was pitch dark and the two were covered by branches, he told the U-T.

He suffered a compound leg fracture. Coronel was recovering in the intensive care unit at Scripps Memorial Hospital.

She had this message Thursday morning before her spinal surgery:[[367860841,C]]

After she underwent surgery, 10 News tweeted:

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