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Posted: 10:52 PM May 11, 2008
Last Updated: 10:52 PM May 11, 2008

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For Marco Marcellas, it was a living nightmare that woke him and his wife during their morning nap. The Marcellas say wind whipped through their mobile home park at around 11 Sunday morning. The wind blew so hard, it split a tree in two! One half landed right on top of their tralior. marco called his brother for help immediatly .

"He called me really quick, he called me and said ahh brother, I need help, the tree had fallen down on my house and i am sleepy."

The couple was trapped for about an hour before emergency crews arrived... Mario was the first on the scene.

"I go inside the window cause a big window broke so I see in the window and I see both of them stuck so i tried to move a tree and open the doors,"

Mario says his sister was injured in the accident and is recovering at a local hospital. Fortunately, the space that suffered the least damaged by the tree is where the couple was sleeping. And though the mobil home is a total loss, Mario and his family know they are lucky to be alive.

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Posted by: patricia short Location: rockford on May 12, 2008 at 12:27 AM
i say they are really lucky that was my aunt polly in that mobile home me and my grandfather help her and her husband brother get the door open to free them just lucky no kids wear in the house at the time my aunt has one grandkid that lives there and another one there she keeps durning the day 5 mins befor the tree came down her grandkid just left with his mother and i think they are a lucky family and god is looking over them

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