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A series of destructive tornadoes tore through Ohio’s Miami Valley Monday night, with some so close together that they crossed paths, according toCBS News.No fatalities have been reported and the total number of injuries is undetermined.
Early Tuesday morning, Montgomery County confirmedvia Twitterthat a “large and dangerous tornado touched down last night,” just outside Dayton. It completely leveled homes and entire buildings, leaving over 80,000 people without power, and affecting more than 5 million.
The city later issued a boil advisory for all water as well.
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Search and rescue operations began overnight and have continued into Tuesday, according to Dayton Fire Chief Jeff Payne, who told CBS that some people were pulled from buildings on Monday night, but only three suffered minor injuries.
“I don’t know that any community that is fully prepared for this type of devastation,” Dayton Assistant Fire Chief Nicholas Hosford toldABC’sGood Morning Americaon Tuesday morning. “We have homes flattened, entire apartment complexes destroyed, businesses throughout our community where walls have collapsed.”
“I think the reduction in injuries is in key part to the early notification and people taking those warning seriously, moving to safe areas of their homes,” Hosford told ABC.
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According to ABC, this was just one of 51 tornadoes that were reported in Idaho, Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio on Monday. They are the latest in an onslaught of powerful thunderstorms,tornadoesand flash floods that have ravaged the Midwest in the past week — and forecasters are warning that there’s more ahead.
Tornado threats continue into Tuesday and Wednesday, with areas from Kansas City to western Illinois and eastern Ohio to Pennsylvania most at risk, ABC reported.
source: people.com
