The driver of the truck got out, entered the market, and immediately bought lottery tickets.
Luckily, the tree that fell on Valencia narrowly missed the drivers who escaped without injury, according to residents and businesspeople on the block. By 5 p.m., a dozen firefighters geared up power saws to chop up and clear the tree, which was on its side with its roots up.
The driver of the truck got out, entered the market, and immediately bought lottery tickets, according to employee Roman Antonian.Kimberley Sawyers, an auto mechanic at SF Auto Works who was watching the firefighters clean up the damage, confirmed the account, noting the cars were headed north and waiting for the traffic light. “It was a sound you could not miss. A big-ass tree coming down.”
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