The Indiana State Police said there are “many significantinjuries” after a tornado tore through the community of Winchester onThursday, part of a storm system that also unleashed suspected twistersthat damaged homes and businesses in parts of Ohio and Kentucky.
By Associated PressIn this frame grab taken from video from WHAS, first responders stage outside a home in Milton, Ky., Thursday, March 14, 2024, after a severe weather system came through the area.
State officials called on Indiana Task Force One to help with search efforts in Winchester, a town of 4,700 people located nearly 70 miles northeast of Indianapolis, according to a post by the rescue team on X. The team is one of 28 Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency-sponsored Urban Search and Rescue teams in the United States.
Multiple buildings in the Indian Lake area were damaged, Timmers said, but the full extent of the destruction was still being assessed. Whether anyone was missing in the aftermath, was not immediately known.A number of buildings in Lakeview were destroyed, Amber Fagan, the president and CEO of the Indian Lake Area Chamber of Commerce, told ABC 6 news.
Earlier, storms damaged homes and trailers in the Ohio River communities of Hanover and Lamb in Indiana.Jefferson County Sheriff Ben Flint said storms destroyed three or four single-family homes and four or five other structures and demolished several uninhabited campers along the river.
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