A giant oak tree crashed into this home on Highway 49 South early Saturday afternoon.A mammoth oak tree fell into a residence in the 2900 block of Highway 49 South just before 1 p.m. Saturday.

The house, located at the site of Mariposa Coffee Company, and the home of the Jerry Caputo family, sustained serious damage to a fairly new addition.

Two individuals were home at the time of the incident. A wheelchair-bound elderly woman, reportedly a mother-in-law, and a maintenance person working underneath the residence.

Neither were seriously injured. The unnamed mother-in-law was treated for medical issues by Mariposa County Fire personnel at the scene, and the maintenance person was fortunately working under the untouched end of the home when the tree fell.

According to Deputy Fire Chief Jim Middleton, the residence sustained around $30,000 in damage, although Middleton said that was purely an “educated guess.”

Fire crews assisted in cutting the tree back from the residence and helped in salvaging possessions.

According to Middleton, the oak had very little root structure, and he believes it fell due to saturated soil. The winds the pulverized Mariposa County earlier in the week, had diminished and left the area at the time of the incident.