‘A miracle’: Vernon, B.C. girl rescues herself, younger sister from falling tree

It was moments later when a large Douglas Fir tree came crashing down, just mere feet from Adelie and her 3-year-old sister, who had just come outside to play.

On Sunday afternoon, eight-year-old Adelie Kovacs was playing in the backyard of her Vernon, B.C., home.

The little girl said she was playing with her crystals when suddenly she heard a strange noise.

“I heard this cracking sound,” Adelie said “The dirt was coming up. Like, say you have a really big shovel and you dig it up and there’s these big clumps of dirt, that’s what I saw.”

It was moments later when a large Douglas Fir tree came crashing down, just mere feet from Adelie and her three-year-old sister, who had just come outside to play.

Adelie, being the protective sister, ran over to her sister and swooped her up to get them both out of harm’s way.

“I grabbed her and pushed her. I pushed her underneath so she doesn’t get hurt because she’s younger than me,” Adelie told Global News.

“I just had instincts to pick up my sister but after that I was shivering, I had a headache, I was so freaked out.”

Their mom, Adrienne, was inside at the time.  Their dad, Matt, had just come home from the store.