Search and rescue efforts are still ongoing in an Iowa community devastated by a brutal tornado
community devastated by a brutal tornado on Tuesday afternoon and there's another widespread threat for storms to the east.
The city's hospital sustained damage and some patients were moved to other facilities in surrounding areas.A "makeshift hospital" was set up in the city's lumberyard on Tuesday right after the tornado tracked out of the area, State Rep. Ray Sorensen said on Wednesday."We pulled a guy from the rubble and put him on a little makeshift stretcher that we made for him on the back of a truck," Sorensen recalled.
More than 50,000 homes and businesses are in the dark across Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois as of Wednesday afternoon, according to PowerOutage.us.More outages are anticipated as storms roll through the East. A tornado also toppled a hulking wind turbine just south of Greenfield in Prescott, Iowa, and more than two dozen homes were damaged or destroyed in Montgomery County, including some "critical public facilities," emergency management officials said.But Greenfield is the epicenter of Tuesday's event.
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