Two men nar­row­ly es­caped in­jury af­ter a fire-dam­aged tree snapped, crash­ing down on­to a busi­ness shed at Palmiste Park in San Fer­nan­do.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands the tree first caught fire on Wednes­day night af­ter some­one lit garbage un­der it.

When the fire restart­ed to­day, the Fire Ser­vices were con­tact­ed, and it was ex­tin­guished.

How­ev­er, the fire re-ig­nit­ed for a third time, and the tree fell on the shed and wash­room fa­cil­i­ties, caus­ing those near­by to scam­per to safe­ty.

One eye­wit­ness, Chat­er­am Paras­ram, ex­plains what he saw.

“I went in the back there [by the bush­es]. When I hear that the tree was break­ing, I run across and tell the own­er of the shed that the tree was ging to fall down. When I walked back, I hear ‘BA-DANG!’ and one part of the tree fall down,” he re­count­ed.

Ven­dor, De­vanand Ra­moutar, says he was in the shed when he heard the crack­ing noise.

“I was in­side the mar­ket stall and all of a sud­den, I hear a noise and then the tree fall on this [shed], and I looked for cov­er,” he told Guardian Me­dia.

Work­ers from the Forestry Di­vi­sion and Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment Unit from the Pe­nal Debe Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion re­spond­ed.

The tree was cut in­to pieces and re­moved.