Cal Fire Warns Of Falling Trees After Man Killed: San Mateo Co.

SAN MATEO COUNTY, CA — After a 28-year-old Minnesota man was killed by a falling tree in the Muir Woods National Monument in Marin County, the Cal Fire San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit is warning people that the risk for unstable trees has increased due to rains.

"Use caution when you’re out and about. Recent rains have saturated the ground and muddied tree root balls. This increases the potential for unstable trees, now top-heavy with water," the agency said Thursday.

Around 4:40 p.m., Subhradeep Dutta of Edina, Minnesota, was walking on a path in the Muir Woods park when he hit by a tree.

He was found "unconscious and lifeless beneath a large redwood tree" in the Hillside Trail area; emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene at about 5 p.m., according to the Marin County coroner's office.

An autopsy is scheduled for Friday.

Another person was hurt by the falling tree and was taken to Marin General Hospital with injuries that aren't considered life-threatening.

According to his LinkedIn and Facebook profiles, Dutta was an engineer with Seagate Technology, a data storage company based in Cupertino, and was originally from Jamshedpur, India.

—Bay City News contributed to this report.