Hiker killed by falling tree at Rancho San Antonio in hills above Cupertino

A female hiker was killed Sunday morning while walking on a trail in Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve.

The Santa Clara County Fire Department said they were called to the scene at approximately 10 a.m. Efforts by other park visitors to remove the hiker from underneath the tree had been unsuccessful, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.

Authorities say the hiker was on the Stephen E. Abbors Trail, which runs along the south edge of the park, in the hills above Cupertino.

Matt Anderson, spokesman for the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, said it wasn’t immediately clear whether it was an entire tree that fell or

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