Sacramento Firefighters Heading To Kentucky Following Tornadoes

MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP/CBS13) — Two Sacramento Fire section members are headed to Kentucky aft the state’s politician says helium fears tornadoes person killed 70 radical successful the authorities and the decease toll whitethorn transcend 100.

The section firefighters are portion of the California-FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Taskforce Incident Support Team. They were deployed to assistance aft the swarm of tornadoes swept done astatine slightest six states.

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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said Saturday that a twister had touched down for much than 200 miles successful the state.

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Severe storms moved done the country Friday nighttime and caused catastrophic harm crossed aggregate states. The storms deed a candle mill successful Kentucky, an Amazon installation successful Illinois and a nursing location successful Arkansas.

Officials had confirmed 18 deaths.

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