00:0064-year-old Andrew Rampersad lived alone here, along Jayaram Trace, Navet Village, Rio Claro.
00:08Recently, he began doing renovations to the house with the assistance of friends and relatives.
00:13A resident explained to TV6 that entailed cutting a large cedar tree, which threatened
00:19the home.
00:20They said they would cut the tree to help fix the house, but the tree, when they get
00:26On Saturday, the 40-foot tree was cut, got stuck on a mango tree, and despite being warned
00:45to stay away from the tree's vicinity, Rampersad was found dead under a branch on Monday morning.
00:51His friends say he was likely cleaning around the home over the weekend when it came crashing
00:57down.
00:58I came to see my wife and I was calling her and I heard her, so I passed her and I went
01:05in the back and I made her peep to see if she was sleeping, but when I came back out
01:10now, I saw her lay down under the tree there.
01:14Rampersad is the second man to have been crushed to death over the weekend by a fallen tree.
01:19On Saturday, 69-year-old Anthony Morales of Biche died when part of a tree he was cutting
01:26in Bristol village Mearo fell on him.
01:29Friends of the Naved victor warned that tree cutting is serious and dangerous work, as
01:35even a branch of a tree is enough to kill a man.
01:39Make sure when you're trimming a tree, especially in the forest, you watch out for which vine
01:44hole and whatever, which way pulling way.
01:48If you could chop it, you chop it, if you can't chop it, leave the tree there.
01:54That is the safest thing.
01:55If you can't chop it down, leave it stand up there.
01:58You have to be more careful, like how the tree cutting is supposed to be going, because
02:02watch where that tree is, near the house, you don't want to make it go that way.
02:08But as I always tell the old people, when your time comes, you just can't run, you know.
02:12Indi Raghubar Tika Singh, TV6 News.
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