Twin girls were taken to the hospital after a tree crashed through their North Georgia home, pinning the girls underneath a bed for more than an hour.
The falling tree split the Stover home in two early Saturday morning when storms tore through Murray County, according to the Dalton Daily Citizen. The family was staying in a trailer on Mary Avenue near Chatsworth while they built a new house.
Rita Wise said her granddaughters, 11-year-old Corbin and Kinley Stover, were moved into one room to keep them safe.
"When the storm started my son thought it was coming from one direction so they got Corbin out of her bed and put her in with Kinley," she told the Daily Citizen.
The girls took cover under Kinley’s bed until the storm passed, and then the tree fell, Wise said.
The tree missed their father, Johnny Stover, and he was able to call for help. Katrina Stover, their mother, was hit in the head and her shoulder was injured, the newspaper reported.
It took a wrecker crew an hour-and-a-half to free the twins, Wise told the newspaper. They were taken to Children’s Hospital at Erlanger in Chattanooga, where they are being treated for bone fractures.
Katrina Stover required 20 stitches to her head and is recovering at Hamilton Medical Center, the Daily Citizen reported.
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