Death toll rises to 5 as wild California storm passes, leaving heightened flood risk
LOS ANGELES — Heavy rain and damaging winds will gradually subside Wednesday as one of the wildest storms of the season makes its exit from the Golden State, leaving at least five people dead and others critically injured as it felled trees and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands.
One person was killed and another injured Tuesday when a large tree fell onto their car in Walnut Creek, according to the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District. Another individual was killed when a tree fell onto a vehicle on Alpine Road in the San Mateo County community of Portola Valley, the California Highway Patrol said.
In Oakland, a man was pronounced dead Tuesday night after a tree fell on the tent he was inside near Lake Merritt. An exact cause of death has not yet been determined, but officials presume he died of either blunt force or suffocation.
Two people also died after being brought to Zuckerberg San Francisco
