BOULDER, Colo. — A man is expected to be OK after a tree hit him when it fell on his home on Friday afternoon, according to the Boulder County Sheriff's Office (BCSO).
BCSO said on Friday around 3:45 p.m. they received a report of a 33-year-old man who was hit by a tree that had been blown over by the wind. Officers said the incident happened on the man's property in the 9700 block of Lefthand Canyon Road outside of Boulder.
Rescuers from the Lefthand Fire Protection District, the Goldhill Fire Protection District and the Fourmile Fire Protection District were the first ones on the scene of the incident but faced challenges with the four-wheel-drive road. BCSO said once they overcame that challenge they hiked uphill to where the man was trapped and freed him from underneath the tree.
BCSO said Rescuers from the Rocky Mountain Rescue Group arrived and helped with the rescue. They transported the man in a litter for approximately one and a quarter miles to an ambulance that was waiting on Lefthand Canyon Road, officers said.
The man was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
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