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Lessons Emerge From Hospital Ravaged by Tornado

A powerful tornado ripped through Joplin on Sunday, wrecking the town hospital.
Photo by Dan Verbeck
A powerful tornado ripped through Joplin on Sunday, wrecking the town hospital.

By Jennifer Moore, KSMU

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JOPLIN, Mo. – Scenes of heroism during and after Joplin's Sunday tornado are beginning to trickle out. And no scene is more gripping than what happened inside the nine-story St. John's Regional Medical Center, when the EF5 tornado began to wreak havoc on the roof, windows, and electricity of the hospital. As KSMU's Jennifer Moore reports, a mostly female staff managed to evacuate the entire hospital within ninety minutes of the tornado.

 

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