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Southern Baptists bring stability to flood survivors

Every day, assessors walk the streets, attempting to find the most vulnerable people with the greatest need. And every day, volunteers don their gloves and get to work, crawling around on a mud-slicked floor or hauling sodden carpet to the curb for trash pickup.

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Carmen Sisson August 31, 2016 August 16, 2017Recent Bylines disaster, disaster response, flood, Louisiana, Southern Baptist Disaster Relief 0

Baptist volunteers witness power of community

Driving the streets of Baton Rouge, the need is apparent. Life is slowly getting back to normal in some places, but the majority of streets hold deep pockets of pain. In these areas, SBDR volunteers are greeted with smiles, tears and heartfelt gratitude.

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Carmen Sisson August 25, 2016 August 16, 2017Recent Bylines disaster, disaster response, flood, Louisiana, North American Mission Board, Southern Baptist Disaster Relief 0

Obama vows better safety for W. Va. coal miners

Barack Obama

Black ribbons fluttered in the breeze as a homemade pinwheel bearing 29 names turned slowly, lending a splash of color to an otherwise overcast day in southern West Virginia. Here, residents are still coming to grips with the state’s worst mining disaster in more than two decades. Part of that process continued Sunday, when President Obama spoke at a eulogy for the 29 coal miners who died in the accident.

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Carmen Sisson April 25, 2010 August 16, 2014Recent Bylines Christian Science Monitor, coal miners, coal mining, disaster, explosion, Obama, safety, Summersville, West Virginia, workplace safety 0

Tennessee fly ash spill survivors worry about toxins

Kingston plant spill

For Tennessee firefighter Chris Copeland, responding to disasters is a way of life, but three days before Christmas, his world was shaken to its foundation when the rescuer found himself in a new role — survivor. Just after midnight Dec. 22, while Copeland lay sleeping, an earthen dike gave way on the north side of Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston Fossil Plant in Kingston, Tenn. Within seconds, 5.4 million cubic yards of fly ash — a by-product of coal combustion — oozed into the Emory River, gaining speed until the glossy, debris-laden sludge roared through the Swan Pond area, leaving three homes destroyed and 42 damaged. Copeland says the sound was deafening; he thought it was a tornado.

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Carmen Sisson January 4, 2009 August 17, 2014Recent Bylines coal ash, disaster, Disaster News Network, environment, Kingston, Tennessee 0

Strong storms batter South; tornadoes confirmed in Denison and Collinsville

Kelly Taylor-Forgar, emergency services director of the Central Louisiana chapter of the Red Cross hopes she never again experiences what she went through Monday night. Red Cross volunteers reported 42 families affected and four homes destroyed in La Salle and Rapides parishes. Meanwhile, their colleagues found themselves in need of assistance as well when high winds slammed trees into their office and tore away part of the roof. Taylor-Forgar, who was in the building at the time, said even though she grew up in Texas and spends her days assisting families touched by natural disasters, it was frightening to witness a storm in progress.

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Carmen Sisson December 10, 2008 August 24, 2014Recent Bylines Collinsville, Denison, disaster, Disaster News Network, Louisiana, storms, Texas, tornado, weather 0

Florida’s Tropical Storm Fay survivors still waiting for recovery

Lorraine Finch stares nervously at the blue tarpaulin covering her 85-year-old mother’s roof. It’s not raining today in southeastern Florida, but as winter sets in, nighttime temperatures are dropping into the low 20s, and the worn plastic does little to shield the home from the elements. It took less than a week in August for Tropical Storm Fay to take 36 lives and leave $180 million damage throughout the state, but recovery is moving far more slowly, frustrating both residents and the organizations trying to help.

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Carmen Sisson December 1, 2008 August 24, 2014Recent Bylines disaster, Disaster News Network, Florida, Micco, tropical storm, Tropical Storm Fay, weather 0
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