{"id":357859,"date":"2026-09-26T23:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T23:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357859\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T23:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T23:50:10","slug":"man-killed-by-fallen-tree-in-brooklyn-amid-weekend-noreaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357859\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed by fallen tree in Brooklyn amid weekend nor&#8217;easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/hitbytree.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">BROOKLYN &#8211; A 56-year-old man was killed by a fallen tree in Brooklyn on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>   Fallen tree hits man <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Rescue crews were called out to the area of Euclid Avenue between Dumont Avenue and Linden Boulevard just before 3:30 p.m., according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">When first responders got there, they found one person with &#8220;body trauma&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Video from the Citizen app appeared to show paramedics giving the person chest compressions.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The man was taken to the hospital, where he later died.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials have not yet identified the man who was killed, but did confirm that he was 56 years old<\/p>\n<p> Nor&#8217;easter causes heavy winds in NYC <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">While it&#8217;s not clear whether the tree fell specifically due to high winds, a nor&#8217;easter moving up the coast Saturday produced winds in the city up to 55 mph, according to NYC Emergency Management.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Gusts of up to 60 mph are still possible through Sunday, officials warned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story is from the FDNY, the Citizen app and the New York City Department of Emergency Management.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/weather\/severe-weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Severe Weather<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\/brooklyn\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article BROOKLYN &#8211; A 56-year-old man was killed by a fallen tree in Brooklyn on Saturday. Fallen tree&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,12,56,63,806,618,133],"class_list":["post-357859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-severe-weather","tag-us","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357859","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=357859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}