Tornado Death Toll Nears 300

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Red Cross volunteer is heading to Alabama One local American Red Cross volunteer is heading for tornado-devastated Alabama, and others could follow. Shawn Scott Fitzgerald, of Dubuque, had been deployed to North Carolina as a logistics volunteer for the Red Cross. She will be heading to Alabama in the wake of the severe storms that have claimed at least 290 lives. The American Red Cross has opened 19 shelters in Alabama housing 640 people. Telegraph Herald

PLEASANT GROVE, Ala. - Firefighters searched one splintered pile after another for survivors Thursday, combing the remains of houses and neighborhoods pulverized by the nation's deadliest tornado outbreak in almost four decades.

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Tornado Death Toll Nears 300

At least 290 people were killed across six states - more than two- thirds of them in Alabama, where large cities bore the half-mile- wide scars the twisters left behind.

The death t...

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