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Tornadoes ripped done six states connected Friday and Saturday and near a way of devastation successful the Midwest and the South, causing astatine slightest 70 deaths.
Communities began digging retired of the rubble connected Saturday and processing the destruction, which included a candle-making mill successful Kentucky, a nursing location successful Arkansas, and an Amazon warehouse successful Illinois.
What follows are scenes from the devastation connected Saturday:
A pistillate walks distant from the ruins of the candle mill arsenic exigency workers comb the rubble.
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Other buildings were besides reduced to rubble successful Mayfield, wherever the halfway of municipality had go a maze of downed powerfulness lines, dangling histrion limbs and scattered debris.
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Half of an Amazon warehouse successful Edwardsville, Ill., is “missing, it’s gone,” a occurrence skipper said. At slightest six radical were killed erstwhile the building, which is astir 400,000 quadrate feet, collapsed connected Friday nighttime aft it was struck by a tornado.
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Irene Noltner and Jody O’Neill consoled each different extracurricular The Lighthouse, a women’s and children’s structure that was destroyed successful downtown Mayfield.
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At slightest 1 idiosyncratic died and respective were injured erstwhile a tornado deed the Monette Manor nursing location successful Monette, Ark. Staff members helped residents screen their heads with pillows to support them from flying solid and debris earlier the walls caved successful and parts of the extortion collapsed.
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Emergency workers survey the aftermath of a bid that was derailed successful Earlington, Ky., due to the fact that of the storms. No injuries were reported.
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A firefighter tries to assistance Vivian Morris, 66, salvage belongings from her location successful Mayfield, arsenic galore residents connected Saturday began to portion their lives backmost together.
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Emergency aesculapian workers checked for survivors trapped successful homes oregon cars aboriginal Saturday successful Bowling Green, Ky., wherever respective radical died and hundreds of homes were destroyed.
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A tornado tore the extortion disconnected Emmanuel Baptist Church successful Mayfield.
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After a tornado struck Dawson Springs, Ky., Mark Schreiber and Zachary Schreiber prayed with a neighbor.
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Emergency responders were overwhelmed by the destruction, but volunteers helped successful the alleviation effort. In Dawson Springs, they unloaded bottles of h2o astatine a mobile exigency absorption center.
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Emergency responders transportation the assemblage of a idiosyncratic who died erstwhile the candle-making mill collapsed.
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Residents of Mayfield locomotion done a country of mangled histrion limbs, destroyed homes, and scattered debris arsenic they survey the damage.
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