Five people have died and at least 35 people are injured after deadly tornadoes ripped through towns in the Midwest state of Iowa. Four of those killed in the tornadoes were in the Greenfield area, while another woman, Monica Zamarron, 46, died when her car was blown off the road in the nearby Adams County.
The Iowa Department of Public Safety said that the number of injured is expected to rise as rescue workers comb through the destruction. The National Weather Service said that more than 20 tornadoes were reported in Iowa alone.
The entire small city of Greenfield was destroyed by the tornadoes, according to Iowa officials. Several tornadoes left a path of complete obliteration through the town which has a population of around 2,000 people.
Shocking photos show the aftermath of the tornado. Scroll down to see them in full below.
Mr Porter remarked: “Debris was lifted thousands of feet in the air and ended up falling to the ground several counties away from Greenfield. That’s evidence of just how intense and deadly this tornado was.”
A resident 90 miles away from Greenfield, in Ames, Iowa, found a library book that read ‘This Book is the Property of the Greenfield Community School District’ stuck to her garage door after the storm passed.
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Rogue Paxton said he sheltered in the basement of his home when the storm ripped through the town.
He told WOI-TV he thought his family was lucky not to lose their house, adding: “Everyone else is not so much, like my brother Cody, his house just got wiped. Then you see all these people out here helping each other.
“Everything’s going to be fine because we have each other, but it’s just going to be really, really rough. It is a mess.”
Another Greenfield resident Kimberly Ergish, 33, and her husband, said there was not “much left to salvage” from their home. She said: “Most of it we can’t save. But we’re going to get what we can.”
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