A bay area guy learns the hard way, dont try this at home. Tonight chaos after a homeowner tries to cut down a tree and everything goes wrong. Power cut off, homes evacuated for hours. Just within the last 30 minutes professional crews got the tree down. We were there. Reporter the commotion started here at marin drive around 6 30 tonight. Thats when were told a homeowner had been in this neighborhood a month tried to take down a 100 foot pine tree, thats what you see behind me. He got 80 through cutting it down and with the wind gusts it might fall the wrong direction, and thats when the Fire Department was called. The tree fell slightly, causing the resident fo longer to continue to no longer to continue to be able to take it down. It was next to power lines. Reporter three homes were evacuate the because of the trees and the hill. Thats when pg e was called in and they cut power to ten homes in this neighborhood while they got the tree down. Around 9 20 tonight that tree did come do
A bay area guy learns the hard way, dont try this at home. Tonight chaos after a homeowner tries to cut down a tree and everything goes wrong. Power cut off, homes evacuated for hours. Just within the last 30 minutes professional crews got the tree down. We were there. Reporter the commotion started here at marin drive around 6 30 tonight. Thats when were told a homeowner had been in this neighborhood a month tried to take down a 100 foot pine tree, thats what you see behind me. He got 80 through cutting it down and with the wind gusts it might fall the wrong direction, and thats when the Fire Department was called. The tree fell slightly, causing the resident fo longer to continue to no longer to continue to be able to take it down. It was next to power lines. Reporter three homes were evacuate the because of the trees and the hill. Thats when pg e was called in and they cut power to ten homes in this neighborhood while they got the tree down. Around 9 20 tonight that tree did come do