An author’s writing studio and a woman’s mobile home were crushed by giant trees this week.

The woman was trapped in the incident. Both barely escaped serious injury.

The region’s first series of fall storms took a toll as falling trees caused substantial damage. Three structures, an RV and a car were damaged, but no one suffered serious injury.

North Kitsap Fire & Rescue was dispatched to an Indianola home Monday morning after a large maple tree came down, destroying a shed that, moments earlier, had been occupied by an author who uses the space as a writing studio.

The same tree caused significant damage to the adjacent property’s two-story home. Portions of that structure’s second-floor ceilings were punctured by branches as the weight of the tree crushed a dormer and section of the roof.

A fence and a recreational vehicle also sustained damage. The home’s owner and sole occupant weren’t injured; the house is insured.

Meanwhile, NKF&R crews were called to a Suquamish residence Tuesday evening after a mobile home’s owner and sole occupant called 911 to report she was trapped when a large tree toppled onto her house and car.

Firefighters quickly freed her from the wreckage and, although she was examined by paramedics, she declined treatment or transport.

She told officials that she’d heard a crack and was moving to another part of the structure as the tree sliced through the mobile home, destroying it.

The home is not insured; the woman is being assisted by the Suquamish Tribe as well as the American Red Cross.