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Woman Rescued By Neighbors After Tree Falls On Framingham Home

FRAMINGHAM (CBS) -- Neighbors helped a woman out of her home on Rockridge Road in Framingham after a tree fell on it Sunday morning. The house is now considered uninhabitable.

Neighbors told WBZ-TV they ran to the house after hearing a loud crash around 10:45 a.m.

"It was just like a train coming through," said neighbor Teddy Quintal.

He and two other men were able to open a window in the back of the house and lift the woman out to safety. She was uninjured.

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A tree fell on Rockridge Road home in Framingham Sunday (WBZ-TV)

"I crawled under the tree at the front of the house," said Quintal. "I knew she was fine, and I knew some other guy was racing up the street to also get at the house."

Frank DiGiandomenico, another neighbor said, "She had just put her groceries away in the refrigerator and that's pretty much where the tree landed...She was just sitting there kind of bummed that her house got squashed."

Public Works crews were at the house on Sunday evening to remove the tree. The Framingham Fire Department said it is unclear what caused the tree to fall.
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