First responders search for possibly trapped survivors or further victims in Georgia and Alabama after storm eased on Thursday night
A twister damaged buildings and tossed cars in the streets of historic downtown Selma, Alabama. Houses were torn off their foundations and property was smashed up and flattened by flying debris and ripped up trees.
Six of the deaths were recorded Autauga county, Alabama, 41 miles northeast of Selma, where an estimated 40 homes were damaged or destroyed by a tornado that cut a 20-mile path across two rural communities, said Ernie Baggett, the county’s emergency management director. One store in the city partially lost its roof, while elsewhere in town firefighters cut a man loose who had been pinned for hours under a tree that fell on his house. The city imposed a curfew from 10pm Thursday to 6am Friday.
Selma mayor James Perkins said no fatalities have been reported, but several people were seriously injured. “We have a lot of downed power lines,” he said. “There is a lot of danger on the streets.” School systems in at least six Georgia counties canceled classes for almost 100,000 children on Friday.
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