INDIANAPOLIS — Three people escaped their home without injury after a large tree collapsed on the house during high winds.
It happened shortly before 4 p.m. Monday as a brief storm moved through the region.
According to officials with the Wayne Township Fire Department, firefighters responded to a house in the 1100 block of Delray Drive on report of a large tree that fell on a two-story house. Three occupants and several pets were able to make it out of the house without injury.
3 people and several pets escaped injury when high winds caused a large section of a tree to fall on this home at 1132 Delray Dr. The home sustained serious structural damage. pic.twitter.com/jsAAc8Xt77
— Wayne Twp Fire Dept (@Waynetwpfire) July 29, 2019
Firefighters said the house sustained serious structural damage.
The National Weather Service Indianapolis office reported a wind gust of 55 mph at Indianapolis International Airport, which is just south of the house, around the time the tree fell on the house.
