Bronx woman dies after tree falls into pool and hits her

A 50-year-old girl was killed when a tree fell on her whereas she was within the pool at her Bronx condo constructing on August 15, 2022.
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A summer time day by the pool turned lethal for a 50-year-old girl within the Spuyten Duyvil part of the Bronx on Monday after she was fatally struck by a tree that fell into the water, police mentioned.

The sufferer, and one other 60-year-old girl, had been swimming within the pool behind the River Terrace Flats on Palisades Avenue round 1:45 p.m. when the tree fell, placing them each, police mentioned.

The youthful girl suffered main physique trauma and was pronounced lifeless on the scene, cops mentioned.

The older girl additionally suffered trauma to her physique and was taken to Allen Pavillion Hospital in essential however steady situation, police mentioned.

“All people was screaming, ‘Assist! Assist!’ My home windows had been open, so I heard all the pieces instantly. I appeared down and I noticed the tree within the swimming pool. I knew there was three or 4 folks in it,” Miriam Allen, who lives on the third flooring, informed The Put up.

A 60-year-old girl was additionally left critically injured by the falling tree.

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The Put up is withholding the names of the victims as a result of the NYPD had not but launched them, pending household notification.

Mike Gallo, 62, noticed the accident from his third flooring condo and mentioned his spouse rode with the surviving sufferer to the hospital.

“She swims with [redacted] each day by day, each different day at [the] similar time. They only take laps and they might, they swim proper subsequent to one another. So, the truth that one  made it and one didn’t was … very, very freakish,” the neighbor mentioned.

Allen mentioned the bushes on the constructing’s property have been ravaged by Asian Horned Beetles and when she referred to as 311 to complain about them, she claimed nothing was performed.

Town Parks Division confirmed to The Put up the tree was not on public property and was the duty of the constructing proprietor. Representatives for the condo constructing didn’t instantly return a request for remark.

Trish Baum, 55, was visiting her mother within the constructing subsequent door when she heard the tree fall.

“I heard this noise and it was only a actually bizarre noise. It wasn’t a practice or a automotive crash — it was a bang,” Baum mentioned.

“I simply mentioned to myself, ‘What was that?’”

StreetEasy listings for the condo constructing boasts views of the Hudson River and entry to a heated pool, facilities that resident Sandra Roberts usually takes benefit of.

“I didn’t go within the pool at present as a result of I had my eyes examined and I didn’t wish to be within the solar, or I in all probability would’ve been in there,” mentioned Roberts, a painter who lives on the sixteenth flooring.

“You by no means go for a stroll when it’s storming due to all of the bushes. I by no means nervous concerning the bushes falling on the pool down there as a result of they had been fantastic to have a breeze; it’s an awesome escape.

“We’re simply in shock. It’s just like the worst factor.”

Roberts mentioned she was away from the constructing when the tragedy struck and solely realized what occurred after a neighbor informed her they “noticed a physique.”

Monday’s demise comes after Brooklynite Jared Richardson was killed after a tree department fell on him whereas he was sitting on a bench on the Reinaldo Salgado Playground in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Saturday.Richardson, who lived throughout the road from the park, was rushed to Kings County Hospital with extreme head trauma however couldn't be saved, police sources mentioned.