{"id":297273,"date":"2026-07-16T02:41:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/297273\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T02:41:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:41:50","slug":"news-12-bronx-bronx-family-says-close-call-with-fallen-tree-comes-after-years-of-ignored-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/297273\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Bronx Family Says Close Call With Fallen Tree Comes After Years Of Ignored Warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A Bronx mother says her daughter narrowly avoided tragedy after a large tree came crashing onto a sidewalk during Thursday\u2019s storms at NYCHA\u2019s Clason Point Gardens.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Dorothy Febus says she was in her backyard when she heard the tree fall outside her building. Her daughter, Brianna, had just gotten home moments earlier.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cMy daughter could have been dead today,\u201d Dorothy said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Brianna says the close call shook her.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cMy heart was jumping and I was thinking, like, \u2018Damn, that could have been me,\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Brianna, who serves as president of the Clason Point Gardens Tenant Association, says she\u2019s been warning NYCHA about the tree for the past five years. She claims another large branch is still hanging over the street and fears someone could be seriously hurt if it falls.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Neighbors say NYCHA surveyed trees throughout the development last year, marking some for maintenance, but they believe several hazardous trees still haven\u2019t been trimmed.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The FDNY cut up the fallen tree to clear the area, leaving debris behind in the family\u2019s yard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bronx mother says her daughter narrowly avoided tragedy after a large tree came crashing onto a sidewalk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-297273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}