No one injured after huge tree falls over and crushes Monrovia home

People were inside a home in Monrovia when a huge tree toppled over and crushed it but no one was injured, police said Thursday.

Authorities responded to a rescue call at the house along South Mountain Avenue just before 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Despite extensive damage to the building, no one suffered injuries. 

On Thursday morning, aerial footage shot around 7:30 a.m. showed the tree resting over the house and a van in its driveway, leveling the home. The tree's trunk was completely uprooted from the ground, with its roots fully exposed. 

"I could tell right away it's falling on their house," neighbor Martha Martinez said. "It was just terrifying."

A stretch of Mountain Avenue between Foothill Boulevard and Wildrose Avenue remained closed Thursday morning.

No other details have been released by authorities. 

Martinez said the community would band together to help their neighbor. 

"If there's some way we could try to help them get back on their feet," Martinez said. "I think that'd be a good thing."

It's not clear what caused the tree to fall, authorities said, so that remains under investigation.