{"id":46453,"date":"2026-03-23T14:37:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/46453\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T14:37:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:37:43","slug":"more-than-just-fighting-fires-warsaw-fire-official-helps-with-lake-village-tornado-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/46453\/","title":{"rendered":"More than just fighting fires: Warsaw fire official helps with Lake Village tornado cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-Kosciusko-Co-300x169.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-822502\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>VIDEO: Wayne Fire Territory Assistant Chief Will Kornrumph showed up at his fire station last Wednesday expecting a normal day. However, at a moment\u2019s 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. \u201cIt was jaw-dropping for the most part, just the amount of devastation that they witnessed and went through,\u201d Kornrumph recalled.<\/p>\n<p>Winds of 150 miles per hour carved a path of destruction through the small Newton County community. \u201cThe amount of trees that were toppled down and taken down, and they looked like how you throw toothpicks on the floor,\u201d Kornrumph added.<\/p>\n<p>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. \u201cMy job was keeping everybody that\u2019s on the ground safe; you know, looking at the different types of weather, and make sure there\u2019s no more storms coming in,\u201d Kornrumph explained.<\/p>\n<p>WBND-TV ABC 57 South Bend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Wayne Fire Territory Assistant Chief Will Kornrumph showed up at his fire station last Wednesday expecting a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[95],"tags":[5313,26300,182,181],"class_list":["post-46453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-warsaw","tag-indiana","tag-interior-midwest-region","tag-poland","tag-warsaw"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116279000578307042","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}