VIDEO: Wayne Fire Territory Assistant Chief Will Kornrumph showed up at his fire station last Wednesday expecting a normal day. However, at a moment’s notice, he was dispatched more than two hours away to Lake Village, Indiana, to be a safety officer for a community dealing with the fresh devastation of an EF-3 tornado. “It was jaw-dropping for the most part, just the amount of devastation that they witnessed and went through,” Kornrumph recalled.
Winds of 150 miles per hour carved a path of destruction through the small Newton County community. “The amount of trees that were toppled down and taken down, and they looked like how you throw toothpicks on the floor,” Kornrumph added.
Dozens of homes and business were left mangled messes, and tragically, two people were killed. Assistant Chief Kornrumph was put in charge of overall safety for the incident. “My job was keeping everybody that’s on the ground safe; you know, looking at the different types of weather, and make sure there’s no more storms coming in,” Kornrumph explained.
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