A Southwest Portland family filed a $4.7 million lawsuit Friday afternoon against the city of Portland’s Urban Forestry division and city forester Jenn Cairo, seeking damages after a large tree fell and crushed their home during a winter storm last year.
As Willamette Week reported in early 2024, a massive Douglas fir crushed the home of Sarah and Joel Bond during a brief but severe winter weather spell in January 2024.
The Bonds had sought permission from Urban Forestry to chop down the tree in the fall of 2021, fearing it would eventually fall on their home. Urban Forestry denied the Bonds’ request, stating the tree was not dead, dying or dangerous, nor was it within 10 feet of the Bonds’ home…