{"id":1527,"date":"2025-10-15T11:56:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/1527\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T11:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:56:19","slug":"tree-crashes-into-upper-darby-home-during-thursdays-storm-trapping-woman-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/1527\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree crashes into Upper Darby home during Thursday&#8217;s storm, trapping woman inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Upper Darby woman is recovering from injuries she sustained Thursday after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/peco-power-outage-philadelphia-weather-storms\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">severe storms<\/a> caused a tree to topple over and slam into her house while she was inside.<\/p>\n<p>When Upper Darby firefighters arrived at the house along Bond Avenue around 5:30 p.m., they found the tree had pinned the woman down around her legs<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Audie Murphy, an Army veteran who lives across the street, ran over to help after hearing the cracking of the tree.<\/p>\n<p>When he arrived, he recalled lifting up a section of the roof that caved in near the woman and comforting her as other neighbors and firefighters arrived to help.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My forearms were shot after coming back by the amount of weight that we were holding,&#8221; Murphy recalled. &#8220;It was a whole team of folks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cara Murphy, his wife, said she and their children are proud of him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think my husband is a hero,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Our whole neighborhood rallied around a crazy storm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>First responders took the woman to Lankenau Hospital Trauma Center to be evaluated.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors told CBS News Philadelphia that they expect the woman to be OK.<\/p>\n<p>Crews started removing the tree&#8217;s thick trunk and large branches Friday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Upper Darby woman is recovering from injuries she sustained Thursday after severe storms caused a tree to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1522,147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-severe-weather","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}