Tornado Siren Concerns (Memphis) People continue to clean up in the midwest after a weekend outbreak of tornadoes. In Woodward, Oklahoma, six people were killed. None of the town’s outdoor tornado sirens sounded due to a lightning strike that hit the system’s tower. Those sirens may not have made a difference due to the strength of the storms but […]
University of Memphis Examines School Safety Following … (Memphis) At the University of Memphis campus, safety and preparedness are always on the mind of Bruce Harber. He’s the director of public safety, “Whenever one of these incidents happen you always start saying, okay, what would we have done?” Even though Monday’s execution-style killing of seven people at a small religious college happened in […]
Memphis Canned Food Drive Is ‘Redesigned’ For Students … (Memphis) At the University of Memphis, this is not your typical canned food drive. Jennifer Zhang is a student at Collierville High School. Zhang said, “We work on it a lot. It fell down a lot, but it’s working.” One-by-one, students from ten high schools in Memphis and Shelby County are studying and stacking thousands […]
Three Severely Burned in Valero Flash Fire FAST FACTS: Three people were severely burned in a flash fire. They work for JV Industrial Companies, a contractor for Valero. Officials are investigating how the flash fire happened. (Memphis) Three people were severely burned and one person checked for high blood pressure Tuesday afternoon at the Valero Refinery on President’s Island. One worker suffered […]
