DALLAS, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) -- Firefighters rescued a woman after a tree crashed onto her house in northern Gaston County Wednesday afternoon.  Firefighters from the Spencer Mountain Volunteer Fire Department Station 18 got to the scene on Dallas Stanley Highway quickly because the emergency was right across the street.  EF-1 tornadoes with 110 mph winds touch down in Southern Piedmont counties They didn’t need to get the call because they heard it — a tree crashing into a home -- and when they got to the home, they couldn’t get to the woman inside. A firefighter had to climb on top of the tree just to get to her.  The sound was unmistakable.  “Just a loud crack like wood breaking,” said David Flanary, fire chief of the Spencer Mountain Volunteer Fire Department.  Tonya Reeves was trapped by a massive tree that crashed into her home.  “Tell them Mama can’t breathe well, it’s tight on me,” Reeves told Queen City News of the message she relayed to her son who was also inside the house.  Reeves said a dresser in her bedroom was holding up some of the weight of the tree, so that not as much was on top of her.  “It knocked me flat on my back and I was kind of pinned down,” she said. “I couldn’t move or get out.”  She called for her son. By the time he arrived, first responders were already there.  “We tried to go in through the front door, couldn’t get in because of the tree,” said Flanary. “We realized we couldn’t get to her through the rear either because the roof had collapsed all the way down, so we were pinned in between the roof line.”  The rain was a welcome sight since that’s how Reeves was able to free herself.  “I think that’s (the rain is) what allowed me to kind of slip out a little bit, stood up halfway, pushed myself completely straight up and stand up,” said Reeves.   Firefighters dropped down a collapsable ladder to get her out of the house.  “He said, ‘Just give me your hand‘ because I couldn’t get up, it was pouring down rain and my feet were slipping, he said, ‘Just give me your hand,” said Reeves.  She says first responders walked her up the ladder and out of her house and then down the tree and helped her off the trunk.  Spencer Mountain Volunteer Fire Department Chief David Flanary. “From looking at that, it’s pretty miraculous,” said Flanary of the family surviving the emergency.  There’s no other way to describe it.  “It was a miracle, honestly to God, I really have to thank the Lord for protecting us,” said Reeves.  Reeves and her son did not even have to go to the hospital. They only had a couple of scrapes, bruises, and scratches.  Reeves and her family are staying with family and friends because their house is demolished.  She’s grateful to her son, firefighters, and people in the community for stopping by the house to help her family.