Harrowing, inspiring account of the nursing home struck by the tornado from WaPo.
Inspiring because of the heroism of the employees and storm chasers, harrowing because the death toll was so nearly much, much higher.
"In the center of the storm, Richards grabbed onto the residents in their wheelchairs beside her and hauled her body on top of them, shielding them from the worst of the debris. She noticed her fellow nurses do the same..."
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"It looked like multiple wheelchairs were stacked on top of each other, but there were people in those wheelchairs. And on top of that, the cinder block wall started to cave in on a couple of those residents,” he said.
He worked quickly to extract each of the residents from the tower of wheelchairs.
“Some residents were face down covered in cinder block wall, and a couple residents [were] pinned up against the wall by other wheelchairs with people in them. And on the ground, we were starting to get flooded by the fire suppression system. So we were scrambling to get them unburied before the fire suppression system flooded up and drowned them,” he said."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/12/11/hit-by-tornado-arkansas-nursing-home-aides-shielded-residents-falling-debris-with-their-bodies/