A tree splintered in half in City Heights on Wednesday, causing the death of a man it fell upon.
The victim was hit by the limb, which appears to be about 30 feet long, when it fell in the 3800 block of Marlborough Avenue in City Heights at about 11 a.m.
San Diego Fire Rescue told NBC 7 that the victim, who is in his 60s or 70s and lived in the house nearby, went into cardiac arrest after the large branch fell on him.
It’s not yet known if the storm, which brought high winds with it when it arrived at about the same time, caused the tree to fracture.
Winds out of the south could gust between 20-35 mph and as high as 45 mph. The coast and inland valleys will be under a wind advisory. until 10 p.m. An Airport Weather Warning is in effect for San Diego International Airport for wind gusts of 30 knots or greater from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m.
Similar incidents were reported around the county at about the same time: a large Chipotle/Starbucks sign came down on two cars in National City on Mile of Cars Way just off Interstate 5. Elsewhere, a palm tree was spotted after it fell in Imperial Beach and a small tree came down in Black Mountain Ranch.
Similar incidents were reported around the county at about the same time: a large Chipotle/Starbucks sign came down on two cars in National City on Mile of Cars Way just off Interstate 5. Elsewhere, a palm tree was spotted after it fell in Imperial Beach and a small tree came down in Black Mountain Ranch.
San Diego Gas & Electric was reporting Wednesday around noon on its outage map that thousands of San Diegans had lost power — from Poway in the north to San Ysidro in the south, from Del Mar in the west to Spring Valley in the east — but almost all of the incidents reported said the cause of the outages were unknown.