Mother thankful to be alive after tree falls on her and her young son

ARLINGTON, Mass. — Less than a week after a tree fell onto an Arlington woman, she has returned home from the hospital.

Sarah Vincelett Dredge was walking down the street with her 2-year-old son Morgan when a large tree fell and hit her in the head.

Morgan escaped serious injury, but his mother still offers him reassurance.

“Sometimes they fall over and it doesn't happen every day. You're safe with mama,” she said.

Vincelett Dredge and her son were visiting her cousin’s house Monday and celebrating the snow day be sledding.

“As we were walking under the tree, I see him with a panic looked, the trees are making sound and the snow is falling,” she said. “All of a sudden the wind was blowing; it was a windy day. Snow clumps just started falling.”

The v-shaped tree split and the part that fell, Vincelett Dredge said, weighed about 1,000 pounds.

“Making the decision whether or not, do I throw myself over him and perhaps he's pinned under me and that will cause him more damage,” she said. “I remember landing in seeing that he was alive.”

She yelled for help, and her brother-in-law responded.

“I knew the Best way to save my baby was to scream to get him out. My brother-in-law found her way through, reach through. I handed off my son to him,” she said.

At home but still concussed, Vincelett Dredge said she has a hard time getting her thoughts together.

“I believe that we are not done yet. Something has to come out of this. That's how I'm going to make my meaning out of it,” she said.

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