http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/mar/01/two-year-old-boy-killed-after-tree-falls-on-family-home-in-melbourne
The tree fell during a severe thunderstorm that hit Victoria on Saturday evening, landing on a two-story house at around 9pm in the outer Melbourne suburb The Patch in the Dandenong Ranges and causing substantial damage.
When emergency services arrived, they found two adults and two children trapped in the house – and were able to remove the adults and the girl, who suffered head, chest and leg injuries and was taken to the Royal Children’s hospital, but could not revive the boy.
Two other adults and a 13-year-old boy escaped unharmed.
The tragedy was one of three storm-related incidents to involve trees in Melbourne on Saturday, with a middle-aged woman suffering a broken leg from a tree fall in South Yarra, while a man aged in his 40s was hospitalised when a tree fell on his leg at The Basin.
Victoria’s State Emergency Service (SES) logged more than 1,400 calls for help during the storm and continuing into early Sunday morning.
“The peak was during the storm, so about 8pm until 11pm, but people are still finding things and calls are still coming through,” SES spokesperson Frances
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