[UPDATED] Two people sustained minor injuries when a 100-foot tall Eucalyptus tree fell over in Pasadena’s Brookside Park near the Rose Bowl Wednesday evening.
Four people were playing volleyball in the park near a softball field adjacent to KidSpace Museum shortly before 6 p.m. when they heard the tree become uprooted from the ground and start to fall, according to Pasadena Public Information Officer Lisa Derderian.
One person sustained a sprained ankle and another may have been hit by a branch, Derderian said. Neither required hospitalization.
The two others, both men, were near the tree but escaped injury, she said.
Witnesses told authorities they did not believe anyone was trapped under the tree, but rescue crews searched limb by limb for possibly trapped victims, according to Derderian.
Police initially described the tree as 250 feet in height.
Pasadena Fire Dept.’s Urban Search and Rescue team used thermal image cameras and to comb through every branch, she said.
The incident is reminiscent of a similar one which occurred on July 28, 2015, in which eight children were injured, three critically, after a 75-foot-tall, 75-year-old tree cracked and fell near Kidspace Children’s Museum.