Michael Puryear puts his bags in the back of a truck packed with relief supplies at the Chattanooga division of the American Red Cross on Tuesday. Puryear and Louie Crowe will travel to Oklahoma to help with relief efforts in the areas devasted by Monday’s tornado.HOW TO HELP
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A woman carries a child through a field near the collapsed Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla. The relationship between the woman and the child was not immediately known.UPDATES FROM OKLAHOMA
Our news partners, WRCB, are filing stories from the site of the devastation in Oklahoma. Follow their coverage here.
Red Cross disaster team coordinator Michael Puryear headed out to Moore, Okla., Tuesday morning unsure of the scope of the devastation – emotional, personal and property – left by an EF5 tornado.
He is sure of one thing, though.