Recovery efforts begin in tornado-torn Coweta

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The metropolis of Coweta is near picking up the pieces astir 24 hours aft an EF-1 tornado tore done the area, precocious Sunday night. Those pieces are already coming unneurotic acknowledgment to affable Green Country neighbors.

"We've been called each astir the Coweta area," DeWayne Corvin of Decor Roofing and Restoration successful Bixby, Oklahoma said.

"One happening I tin accidental astir Northeast Oklahoma is this is 1 large family," Coweta Police Chief Mike Bell said. "You telephone retired and you say, 'I request help,' and boy, your beforehand doorbell is ringing successful a heartbeat."

Bell said his telephone was besides ringing disconnected the hook astatine the tornado touched down successful town, Sunday night.

"I had radical from each astir the state, actually, calling maine up saying, 'Hey, fto maine cognize if you request thing and I'll beryllium there.'"

That connection for assistance continued into Monday's afloat time of recovery.

Corvin and his crews boarded up breached windows and blown retired doors and patched up holds successful the extortion astatine Coweta Manor, an assisted surviving home.

"We were capable to travel retired and present and unafraid it. Fix and tarp successful the roof," Corvin said. "Take attraction of the damages that they had.”

Bell said the American Red Cross and Oklahoma Baptist Disaster Relief volunteered their clip and efforts to measure and assistance families dealing with extended damage. The main adjacent got calls from his peers offering to nonstop their ain officers truthful Bell and Coweta Police could spell location and drawback up connected remainder interrupted by the tornado.

"It meant a lot," Bell said. "It truly did."

Bell said other officers were are patrolling damaged properties to support an oculus retired for looters, this week.

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