BERKS COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — Strong winds caused chaos and destruction in the Exeter area Wednesday night—including one call where a tree came crashing down onto a home, trapping a child inside.
The Exeter Township Volunteer Fire Department said its crews responded to numerous storm-related calls overnight Wednesday evening into Thursday morning.
“In the fire service you always have those calls that you will remember for a while for various reasons,” the volunteer fire department wrote in a Facebook post. “Last night was one of those calls.”
Just after 10 p.m., crews were alerted to a tree that help onto a home and trapped a child, the fire department said.
Everyone was able to get out without any injuries.
But as firefighters were waiting for the utility and restoration companies, crews were called to a crash on the Route 422 bypass where a a car clammed into a tree that fell in the road.
First responders arrived on scene of the wreck to find a tree across the road, and the car that ran into the tree further down the road, the fire department said.
“After further investigation it was determined that the car ran into the tree at the roof line, completely shearing the roof off the vehicle and the roof stuck to the downed tree,” the fire department wrote on social media.
The person who’d been inside the vehicle suffered non-life-threatening injuries.