{"id":108551,"date":"2025-12-25T06:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/108551\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T06:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:51:08","slug":"san-diego-man-killed-by-falling-tree-in-third-storm-related-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/108551\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego man killed by falling tree in third storm-related death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A San Diego man was killed Wednesday morning after a tree fell on him, the third death linked to the storm pummeling Southern California over the holiday, the San Diego Police Department confirmed. <\/p>\n

The man, who was 64, was in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego when he was hit by the tree around 10:55 a.m.<\/p>\n

Local television news outlets showed the massive 75-foot tree collapsed on the sidewalk at 3805 Marlborough Ave. Family told NBC 7 San Diego<\/a> that the man was named Roberto Ruiz, and that he had just stepped out of their home to move his car when part of the tree toppled and crushed him.<\/p>\n

Ruiz\u2019s death was the third fatality linked to the Pineapple Express storm that has brought debris flows, downpours and evacuations to the Southland<\/a>. <\/p>\n

On Sunday, a person died in rising waters<\/a> as flooding overwhelmed parts of Redding, according to city officials. Police officers tried to save the person, who was inside a vehicle as the waters rose around them, but they did not make it out in time.<\/p>\n

On Monday, a woman in her 70s was knocked off a rock and killed by a large wave<\/a> during a fierce storm at a beach at MacKerricher State Park, according to the Mendocino County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Diego man was killed Wednesday morning after a tree fell on him, the third death linked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,4997,34425,3564,1431,58369,2971,1459,7656,1310,58368,58366,61,58367,13795,646],"class_list":["post-108551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-debris-flow","tag-downpour","tag-evacuation","tag-family","tag-marlborough-ave","tag-nbc","tag-part","tag-person","tag-redding","tag-roberto-ruiz","tag-san-diego-man","tag-storm","tag-third-storm-related-death","tag-tree","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}