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Ten-year-old Robert Pettit was all alone when he woke to a tree smashing away the front wall of his bedroom.
His mother, Marcie, burst into the room and immediately panicked – the tree was right where her son’s bed used to be in their Ochs Highway house.
“It coulda crushed me,” Robert said.
Robert’s room had been redecorated a week ago, and his bunk bed was moved from the front wall to the back, likely saving his life.