Crime & Safety
Tree Falls on Cheever Avenue House
Police and fire officers are called Wednesday afternoon, but no one is hurt and the house appears structurally sound.
Geneva police and Fire Department officers reported to a call for a tree falling on a home on Cheever Avenue at around 3 p.m. Wednesday.
But they quickly turned around and headed back to their stations as the situation wasn't an emergency, no one was injured and the building didn't sustain enough structural damage to warrant immediate concern.
As he was leaving the scene, Geneva Deputy Fire Chief Jerry Koster said the tree had been down for a couple of days and no one was hurt.
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The tree had broken near the base and did cause some damage to the home at 509 Cheever Ave. Geneva had been on the receiving end of strong winds Monday.
A quick look at oplin.org's "What Tree Is It" indicates that the tree was not an ash, the variety that has fallen prey to the . The leaves look a little like those of the London Planetree—but that's coming from a parent who was never exceptionally helpful to his kids in the Dreaded Leaf Project that many Geneva students have to undertake in third or fourth grade.
