Two officers were lightly injured while working on a downed tree branch in central Taichung, and both are already out of the hospital.

• Police were managing traffic around a broken tree branch late at night at a downtown intersection when the tree itself gave way.
• Both officers took cuts and bruises, got patched up at a hospital, and returned to their unit to rest.
• City officials say the tree fell because bad growing conditions rotted its roots.
• Crews are still clearing branches, and the city plans health checks on other trees along the same street.

Outlook: Trees on that stretch that look unsafe will be checked and moved out to keep the road safe.