A woman is dead after being struck by a fallen tree in the Capitol Hill area in D.C. Wednesday morning, officials said.
A woman is dead after being struck by a fallen tree in the Capitol Hill area in D.C. Wednesday morning.
Fire officials said they started receiving reports of a woman trapped under a tree at Garfield Park in Southeast just before 7:30 a.m.
When first responders arrived, they found an unidentified woman trapped under a tree.
The woman was declared dead as officials began working to remove the tree that landed on top of her.
Investigators are still working to figure out exactly what happened.
Below is a map where the woman was struck by a tree at:
