Woman Hit By Tree In Woburn Expected To Survive

WOBURN, MA -- A woman who was picking up her child at the Wyman Elementary School in Woburn was seriously injured Friday when a tree and two utility poles came crashing down on Main Street. The child was unhurt and the woman is expected to survive.

Rescue crews cut power to the area and then used airbags and the jaws of life to lift the tree off of the woman, according to Kathryn Sotnik of NBC Boston, who was the first to report this story in a Twitter post. While initial reports said the tree had hit a mother and child, Sotnik updated her report to say that only a woman had been hit by the tree and injured.

"The tree that fell on the lady is massive," Jamey Gadoury said in an email to Woburn Patch. "Can hear the compressor running. The boys and girls club is out of power, and they were calling parents to get kids sent home. "

In addition to the downed tree on Main Street, there were multiple reports of downed limbs and closed roadways throughout the city. Traffic was being diverted around a detour on a portion of Mishawaum Road and Eaton Avenue, Wyman Street and Main Street were expected to be closed for extended period, according to a Twitter post by Woburn Police Chief Robert Ferullo.

The Woburn High School girls basketball game scheduled for tonight against Beverly was postponed until Sunday.The Reeves Elementry School PTO canceled its pizza night scheduled for Friday.

There are multiple reports of downed trees throughout the region and a growing list of injuries as a Nor'easter has brought windy, wet weather and sustained wind gusts topping 45 miles per hour to Massachusetts. In Tewksbury, a driver of a Jeep was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries after a tree fell on his vehicle.

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Photo by Jamey Gadoury.

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