Officials in Rolling Fork on Monday mobilized volunteers, organized logistics and opened a mobile hospital in the impoverished small town in western Mississippi clobbered by a ferocious tornado three days ago.
Some 26 people were killed in the powerful twister that ripped through the area and town of 1,900 on Friday night, destroying many of the community's 400 homes, snapping tree trunks like twigs and tossing cars aside like toys.
Officials were also organizing volunteer clean-up crews, the flow of donated supplies such as water and directing families Federal Emergency Management Agency and Red Cross resources. "You can see that truck there. That's my brother's. He's a truck driver. All of those trucks right there are his trucks. So his whole livelihood is just sitting in a pile of dirt," he said as he walked over piles of debris where his neighborhood once stood.The tornado, which rolled for 70 minutes on the ground as it traveled east 59 miles on Friday night was classified as EF-4 twister, according to the preliminary report by the National Weather Service.
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