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Another Tree Topples Onto Pasadena Home, Raising Fears That More Are Collapses Are to Come

Published on Wednesday, February 22, 2017 | 6:30 am
 
Image: Pasadena Fire Dept.

A 50-foot tree collpased without warning Tuesday morning across the driveway and onto a garage attached to a home in the 600 block of Zanja Street, a Pasadena Fire Dept. spokesperson said.

There were no injuries in the 10:30 a.m. collapse.

Derderian said it is likely that tree collapses could “continue for several weeks even after the rains, because the soil has to readjust to all that extra saturation.”

On February 15, a 100-year-old, 125-foot-tall pine tree suddenly collapsed and fell at a home in the 900 block of North Hill Avenue and completely crushed an automobile. The family was away at the time.

Derderian said the soil in Pasadena is oversaturated with water from the recent waves of rainstorms which have battered the area over recent weeks.

That, she said, combined with tree limbs weighted by water making trees top-heavy are the causes of the numerous incidents this month.

Derderian said that luckily, so far, nobody has been injured by falling limbs or trees.

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