Trees have fallen throughout various parts of the SF State campus due to the first storm of the region's rainy season.

Around 2:30 p.m., trees appeared to have fallen on the east side of the main quad, near the business building. A second tree possibly may be uprooted as a result of the strong winds. Maintenance personnel are currently working to prevent the second tree from uprooting. There is a reported risk of the tree falling close to other buildings in the area.

Additional trees near Mary Park and Mary Ward halls were also reported as being knocked over and blocking main parts of the campus walkway. Students reportedly witnessed a Chartwells employee being taken down by the tree.

"I was sitting in my bed and heard it crack, then I looked out my window and it fell and knocked the Chartwells worker over," said freshman and Mary Ward dorm resident Alexa Amore, 17. "And then he just got up and left. It was like an outer body experience, I was scared."

Jeff Birnbaum, 18, a freshman and Mary Ward resident, also saw the tree falling. "I saw it fall right into the day care center, I saw it from my dorm room," he said. "I didn't see the man get hit but from what I heard...he is one of the lunch people working here."

Birnbaum attempted to check out the scene and tried to take the elevator from his sixth floor dorm room when the elevator "suddenly stopped around the fifth floor," he said.

Birnbaum hit the emergency button and spoke to a dispatcher when the elevator started moving again. The elevator "kept stopping and moving" until he reached the bottom. When the doors opened, an officer and four Resident Assistant's were there. Birnbaum estimated the whole process took about two minutes.

The tree initially cracked once, then the entire tree split into an L shape, half of it falling into the Children Campus, according to Scott Davis, a senior and witness to the scene.

Resident Assistants are directing residents coming from up campus to go around the Mary Ward building along Font Boulevard or to go through the Mary Ward building in order to reach Mary Park.

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Reporter Brittany Lyles and photographer Thomas Levinson contributed to this story.