25 people were killed and several injured, and the town of Rolling Fork ceased to exist due to a tornado in Mississippi, local television channel WAPT reported on March 25.
Of the 25 tornado deaths in the state, 13 died in the Rolling Fork, Sharkey County Coroner Angelia Eason confirmed to reporters. Six bodies were recovered from the rubble in the mobile home park. Eason said her husband and wife were found dead in her home after a neighbor’s 18-wheeler blew into her home.
Eason said that the entire town of Rolling Fork had practically disappeared. In the photographs of the city, somewhere you can see only heaps of garbage on the place of houses, with cars under this garbage, somewhere there were lonely walls without roofs and windows.
Search and rescue teams were dispatched to Rolling Fork along with ambulances in response to the tornado, Gov. Tate Reeves said. Emergency shelters are open and teams from around the world have arrived to help.
“Complete and utter devastation…roofs were ripped off houses, walls were torn down from housessaid Edgar O’Neill, a Rolling Fork resident. — I have seen several places where chunks of concrete and asphalt have been lifted from the ground. I mean utter devastation.”
The tornado that developed near Rolling Fork around 8 p.m. on March 24 was at least a mile wide and traveled more than 170 miles.
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves announced on March 25 that he had declared a state of emergency and contacted President Joe Biden to organize support from the federal Office of Emergency Management.
Let us remember that in the United States the number of victims of any emergency is determined by the number of bodies found. Therefore, as rescue efforts progress, the number of victims may increase.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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