BUSHNELL, Fla. – Christian Ramirez had just laid down on his bunk bed - the bottom bunk - to watch YouTube on his phone Friday night when the ceiling caved in.
"Christian was back here in the bunk bed and said he heard something falling but didn't know what it was," his mother Melissa Ramirez said. "He thought it was a storm or tornado. He just heard something. All of a sudden, he heard cracking and dust was coming around him and glass and boards. He stayed under bunk beds and immediately called his dad and said a tree fell on us."
Ramirez was not home at the time and neither was her husband or Christian's older brother - they'd just left to pick up burgers.
Ramirez raced to the mobile home to rescue Christian.
"Once I got in there I went into the kitchen and said, 'Son, can you hear me?' and he would not respond to me and it traumatized me," Ramirez said. "I wasn't going to leave my son in there no matter what."
Ramirez said a neighbor came running and tore the back door off to free Christian. He had been trapped - and at the same time protected - by his old, sturdy, solid-wood bunk bed.
"It would have collapsed on my son," Ramirez said.
Christian made it out without a scratch but the rest of the family's possessions are destroyed. The tree squashed most of the home in the former Parker Mobile Home Park in Bushnell on West County Road 48.
"Got my mother's ashes, but haven't got my family pictures of my grandma, nieces and nephews," Ramirez said. "But this was our home. And now we have nothing. And if we could've just all come together it would have been OK. We've been working for two days and been out here 13, 14 years and everybody just goes by. A gentleman stopped yesterday but other than that, they just come and look at us. It shocks me because if I found a tree down we'd be the type that would help them."
So Ramirez's neighbors called News 6's Erik von Ancken.
He immediately called the Red Cross to help the family and phoned Melissa's landlord, the owner of the property on which the mobile home sits.
Ramirez claimed the landlord finally visited the property three days after the tree fell but did not offer to help.
"She said she would try to help us some sort of way, just let her get here first," Ramirez said.
Ramirez said the family desperately needs a place to stay.
The landlord, identified by her sister as Nicole Bruce Blosch, said she had been out of town until Monday.
"I am going to do the best I can to help the gentleman that lives there," Blosch said.
She wasn't able to elaborate on whether she will be able to replace the family's belongings.
Blosch said she was dealing with Ramirez's husband, David, because Ramirez wasn't currently living at the house. David later said that Blosch agreed to help clean up the mess and find the family a new place to live.
The Red Cross said a case worker would continue to provide the family with financial assistance for temporary housing and necessities.
A family who owns a tree service stopped by the home and offered to remove the tree after they saw the story on News 6. A woman who is holding an estate sale offered to donate belongings and another person offered to tow the mobile home from the property once the tree is removed.