GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – Friday afternoon’s storms which rolled through the Green Bay area left downed trees and branches in its wake.
Jeremy Pazurek says he was passing fire trucks on his way home, where his daughter was alone. When Pazurek reached the house on Beech Tree Road, he saw a tree cut his garage in half. Another tree landed on a car in his driveway.
“I ended up running to the door and she was fine,” Pazurek told FOX 11.
His daughter, Kaylee, was in her room when the trees came crashing down.
“First thing I did was go look for my cat and then I ran down in the basement because I was scared another tree was going to fall or something,” said Kaylee Peters.
While across the street, a tree Mary Hardie-Roze heard fell on a power line connected to her house, sparking a fire on the siding. Flames then spread to her deck and the wood chips underneath.
“I said that doesn’t look good and all of a sudden pow, the light, the sound, the smell, everything happened at once and I just saw the tree go and all the power went out,” Mary Hardie-Roze told FOX 11. “My heart is still beating and then of course the fire department made us run out and stand in the rain for goodness, ages and ages, while they were trying to make sure the fire was out.”
The fire was quickly doused by firefighters. Both families now have the task of cleaning up ahead of them, and the memories of this storm they won’t soon forget.
