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Fourteen Arkansas National Guardsmen were injured late
Monday night when their barracks collapsed during a possible tornado at Camp Shelby,
their training facility, in Mississippi.
Camp Shelby is a Joint Forces
Training Center
about 75 miles Northwest of Mobile, Alabama.
“Fourteen members of the unit were taken to Forrest General
Hospital with non-life-threatening
injuries. We don't know the extent of those injuries yet,” said Lt. Col. Doril
Sanders, Camp Shelby spokesperson, according to CNN.
The building's roof was partially removed allowing the rest to collapse.
Sanders said the cinderblock building that housed members of the 1st/153rd
National Guard Unit was damaged about 11:23 p.m. Monday. He also added the
identities of the injured Arkansas
soldiers were being withheld until their families could be contacted. They were
originally from Mena, Arkansas,
but were training at Camp
Shelby.
Five other Amite
County homes suffered
heavy damage, though no injuries were reported to the Mississippi Emergency
Management Agency.
According to the National Weather Service’s Web site, there
were reported two tornadoes Monday in Mississippi,
and numerous notices of hail and damage from high winds in a swath from eastern
Texas to Alabama.
The service issued a tornado watch Tuesday morning for parts of Alabama, the Florida Panhandle, Georgia, and Tennessee.
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