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Recovery effort in Georgia after destructive storm system

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    Barton County fire chief assesses damage

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-- Fox News weather alert a powerful storm system sweeps through the southeast.

Leaving widespread damage in its wake.

Tornadoes flipping cars and flattening homes in Bartow county Georgia yesterday at least one person has been killed there.

Joining us now on the phone market accounting chief Craig Millsap fire chief I should say.

-- Millsap -- have you been able to examine you know get to all of the damaged areas do you know that everybody's been accounted for.

I yes we were able to -- primary last surveys yesterday and they did in the secondary assessment side yesterday evening.

So we are confident that we have made it you know -- Obviously.

It's not the time of year when you expect to be seeing scenes like what we -- seeing on our screen right now tornadoes out the window.

There was a fair amount of warning though just that when these things come.

You gotta deal with the aftermath.

My best unfortunate that it we did we did get -- warnings from National Weather Service.

From.

When you have you know system -- But what it came across -- police the past couple of days which is really -- January.

You just never really know what to expect what's the challenge facing your people now.

Again this is still just dealing get it going through the debris and it in getting everything open back up.

To the public.

In April.

So that they can actually get in this start doing start to clean up.

Please these things are obviously so capricious sometimes they -- you know skip up and down hit a neighborhood and skip the next one was this one on the ground a long time is -- a long connected.

String of damage.

Actually this one Peruvian -- -- and if it was on the ground approximately two and a half to three miles.

I know well a year before last when we had two tornadoes hit Bartow county we had it on the ground per close to 25 miles so it wasn't.

Like it was in the person but he he had a very populated area.

-- and what happened what what is it that took the life of one resident of your counting.

-- good -- -- and trees that fell on the wrist advanced.

Did do the damaged it to claim that it.

Just so sad.

You know such a strange weather event especially for January chief Craig Millsap from Bartow county fire department.

We wish you well has as you work clean them thank you but must.

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