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Family shares brush with death after nearly being crushed by falling tree

A family in Brooklyn experienced a near-death incident when a tree fell suddenly behind them in Bensonhurst while they were walking to a gathering.
Ben Kerstein described the tree as "super dead" and noted that it could have killed them if it had landed on them.
Despite the frightening incident, Ben expressed relief that no one was injured, stating, "If it had landed on us, we would’ve been dead."
The Parks Department clarified that the fallen tree did not belong to the family.

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