We are staying on this developing story.
A tree company had to bring out a special machine,
it's called the Black Pearl, to safely remove trees that
fell during Hurricane Helene Channel Tuesday.
Asia Fernandez is in Chastain Park and Thai, I bet
neighbors are relieved.
It is a noisy Friday here in this neighborhood in
Chastain Park.
But the neighbors here want to hear this because it's
basically music to their ears.
Trees have been looming over their homes for the last
week, and finally they're getting some relief.
Yeah.
11 little movement wrong where you're loading into that crane,
it could go through the house.
Grant McGarry is a veteran who now owns a tree
company.
He's sent crews all over the state.
After Hurricane Helene brought down several trees for this mangled
nest in Chastain Park, McGarry had to bring out this
huge machine that weighs 275 tons.
It's called the Black Pearl because it's the only machine
that could handle this type of job.
There was a high impact wind that knocked over 2
red oaks they're suspending over that house.
The lot of the limbs or canopy went through the
roof of the house to protect the rest of the
house and the neighbors houses.
It took McGarry 3 days of careful calculations.
There's been a few companies out here to attempt to
get these out.
It's pretty risky.
There's no rigging.
There's a large hill, you know, steep incline in the
backyard.
Not a lot of access.
Finally, around 11:00 AM Friday, one of the trees came
down.
McGarry says that was the most difficult part of this.
He said he'll have the rest of the trees down
by the end of the day.
Hopefully this will be the last day.
Get these out, let them sleep, you know, in their
house tonight.
And safer, the owner of the tree removal company said
this should be all cleaned up by the end of
the day.
You know, neighbors here, they were very patient.
They did not want to talk on camera, but they
told me they are very thankful to this company and
just glad that their homes are intact.
We're in northwest Atlanta and Chastain Park.
Taisha Fernandez, Channel 2 Action News.