One small child was killed when a rain-soaked redwood tree fell on his home in Sonoma County during the heavy rains – and others across Northern California died in car crashes and in floods, officials said.
The child, describes as either 1 or 2 years old, was killed Wednesday night when the tree fell on him and he was found covered in debris, according to Occidental Volunteer Fire Department Chief Ron Lunardi said. The mother and father were also in the home but were uninjured, Lunardi said.
He said the father was "frantic" and came running out of his home yelling: "My child is not breathing."Not much more was immediately made public about the child's death.encountered a patch of standing water and hydroplaned, losing control of her car and died with when crashed into a light pole, police said.
Police said that she was driving too fast for the rainy conditions and the roadway flooding did not help. And further north in Sacramento County, crews discovered the bodies of two additional women stemming from the Sacramento-area flooding following a storm on New Year's Eve, bringing the total number of drivers found dead in submerged cars to three.
One of the victims was a woman found in a field east of Highway 99 by California Highway Patrol officers. The CHP was towing cars that were abandoned amid deep water from the swollen Cosumnes and the Mokelumne rivers. The police believe the woman had been traveling in such a car.
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