Video Shows NJ Police Officer Narrowly Avoiding Being Pinned by Massive Tree
The officer was responding to a call of a large branch blocking the road.
— -- A 33-year-old New Jersey police officer was almost pinned under a giant tree as he responded to a call of a large branch blocking a road Friday morning.
As Officer Douglas Faber of the Ringwood Police Department tried to remove the enormous branch from the road at around 6:45 a.m., another part of the tree came crashing down, nearly pinning him under it, said Ringwood Police Chief Joseph Walker.
Dashcam video shows Faber running as soon as he hears sounds of the tree cracking, but its top branches strike his legs on the way down, causing him to fall to the ground. A fellow officer is seen coming to his aid.
In the video, it appears as if Faber escaped unscathed, but he sustained a head wound requiring 13 stitches and fractured his wrist, Walker said. He was treated at a local hospital.
Faber has been a Ringwood police officer for seven years, the department told ABC News.
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