Firehouse leveled by tornado. Details, video and pictures at Silver Bluff Volunteer fire department in Aiken, South Carolina.
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Tornado damage late Friday and early Saturday destroyed buildings, injured dozens and left one-person dead in a car crash in the Aiken, South Carolina area. It also destroyed the main station of the Silver Bluff Fire Department.
Excerpts from the Aiken Standard:
The Silver Bluff Fire Department on Williston Road was leveled. Little of the structure remains, and the trucks sustained heavy damage. On Saturday, County emergency workers pulled up a seat on concrete blocks that once stood as the walls of the facility to take short breaks.
Fortunately, no one was inside the building when the storm hit; however, several firefighters were en route to the station and had to be rescued as trees fell, blocking roads and making it impossible to reach their destination.
“We are still providing services, and I want to remind everyone to please stay inside and off the highways until we can bring the situation under control,” said Kerry Green, Silver Bluff Fire Department chief.
Excerpts from the Augusta Chronicle:
Meanwhile the Silver Bluff Fire Department is relying on the help of the Beech Island, New Ellenton and Jackson fire departments after its main facility was destroyed by the storm.
“The station’s totaled. There’s one wall standing,” said Silver Bluff Fire Chief Kerry Green.
The station lost three firetrucks inside and has only one left, which is operating out of a substation.
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