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Yahoo
08-04-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
National Weather Service confirms EF-2 tornado hit City of Lone Star
LONE STAR, Texas (KETK)– The National Weather Service has confirmed that an EF2 tornado tore through the city of Lone Star near the Ellison Creek Reservoir on Friday. Bowie, Cass, Morris counties declare local disaster after severe weather The Mayor of Lonestar, Brianna McClain, has issued a mandatory curfew until Friday for damaged neighborhoods. City officials said 40-50 families are displaced because homes are toppled by trees and no power in the area. Bowie-Cass Electric Cooperative has crews continuing to work on restoring power to the hardest hit areas. The Morris County Emergency Management team and local tree companies are still picking up the pieces, after the intense tornado left destruction all along its path. 'The trees are all broken down there. You can see where the path it took. If people had been out, somebody should have died, but no one did,' Chief Ernest Hastings with the Lone Star Police Department said. EF-1 tornado hits Hawkins causing major damage The Lakeview Baptist Assembly Church campgrounds near Ellison Creek Reservoir has had devastating damage to the property. The manager said nearly 250 trees were snapped and 75% of the cars in their parking lot were totaled and thrown hundreds of yards away. 'We had 50 something cars in the parking lot, probably 75% of them were damaged. We had six of them that were picked up and thrown probably 300 feet away that are totally totaled out,' campgrounds manager, Collier Szydloski said. The campgrounds was hosting a women's retreat when the tornado passed by. 125 women took cover in the auditorium basement and after the storm rolled out, the women saw the building heavily damaged. There were no injuries reported at the church. 4 tornadoes reported in East Texas, person injured at Hawkins' water bottling plant People in Lone Star said great progress has been made with the help of volunteers like Texans on Mission. 'Everybody's working. Everybody's putting their head together working this. You couldn't ask for a better response,' Hastings said. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
CBS News
19-03-2025
- Climate
- CBS News
Texans on Mission deploys to Texas Hill Country wildfires, Missouri tornado
Non-profit Texans on a Mission is on two big missions to lend a helping hand to people who have been affected by natural disasters. A trailer full of supplies and love left Dallas Tuesday to help those who need it the most. "We know these are the most difficult times in people's lives, and we just seek to lift them up," Texans on Mission spokesman John Hall said. A Texans on Misson trailer made its way to Texas Hill Country to help firefighters battling almost 10,000 acres of wildfires in the Fredericksburg area. "We're doing all of their laundry, and so it's one more thing that they just don't have to think about. They don't use energy or mental energy just to get that taken care of," Hall said. The trailer has six washer and dryer units, and those the Texans on Mission said this is just the beginning of what they're planning on doing in that area. Hall said the non-profit will likely help homeowners once the fire is contained. "At that point, we may need to send in fire recovery teams to begin looking for items that may have been lost or even clearing entire lot if homes have been entirely lost," Hall said. Texans on Misson is also getting ready to help people affected by an EF3 tornado in Popular Bluff, Missouri. "In Missouri, we have a feeding team. We have chainsaw teams. We have incident management teams that will oversee the relief in an entire county in southeast Missouri. The needs there are great," Hall said. Texans on Misson, formerly Texas Baptist Mem, is also keeping an eye on North Texas. "We're in a in a situation of high winds, low humidity, likely to encourage fires, and so where fires happen, we're ready to respond, and our teams are ready to go," Hall said. The non-profit is busy serving people's spiritual, emotional, and spiritual needs as they make a difference on trailer at a time.
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- General
- Yahoo
East Texas non profit prepare to bring relief efforts to tornado victims
TYLER, Texas (KETK)- J Star Ministries and Texans on Mission are preparing to bring relief and resources to tornado outbreak victims in the South and Midwest. 5-year-old hit by sedan in Carthage, officials investigating East Texas organizations are doing what they do best gearing up to help people in need. On Wednesday, J Star Ministries will go to Cave City and Diaz, Ark. Patrick Johnson, the nonprofit's founder, is asking for donations on his social media platform. Johnson is asking for financial donations and items, including water, non-perishables, dog food, cat food and other basic needs. 'The typical basic needs such as water, Gatorade, tarps, first aid kits, toilet paper, paper towel, nonperishable food items, chips, snacks, drinks and first aid kits,' founder of J Star Ministries, Patrick Johnson, said. Rep. Hefner proposes bills to eliminate threats towards Texas Texans on Mission is on standby to deploy a quick response crew to the hardest hit areas in Missouri. A crew of nearly 50 people will help clean up efforts with a chainsaw recovery units, shower units and a feeding units. The mobile kitchen can feed up to 600 people each day. 'They don't have power, and they got tree damage, so we would take our feeding unit there for the public, and then we would also take chainsaw recovery units and shower units for our volunteers,' Director of Disaster Relief for Texans on Mission, David Wells. Texans on Mission is sending shower units to Fredericksburg, where first responders have been battling the Crabapple fire, scorching nearly 10,000 acres. Both J Star and Texans on Mission plan to aid victims of more than 130 fires in Oklahoma. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
14-02-2025
- General
- Yahoo
East Texas volunteer organizations continue helping California wildfire victims
ALTADENA, Calif. (KETK) — The destruction of thousands of homes in southern California will take a long time to rebuild, but several East Texans have already set out on a mission to help these people start that process. Retiree Marilyn McBey has been volunteering with the Southern Baptist Texas Convention Relief Team for six years and says she is grateful to continue her work in southern California. Monstrous wildfires blanket Southern California with smoky air, threatening the health of millions 'It doesn't matter where God sends us. I mean, I'm willing to go and I love it,' McBey said. She and her team have been on the ground for the past seven years serving the servants by cooking meals for other volunteer groups in the middle of the destruction. 'It's emotional, you know,' McBey said. 'It's like they don't have any hope. They don't know what they're going to do next.' Texas on Mission, another East Texas group volunteering in California, is serving in another way by helping families salvage what's left by physically sifting through what's left. 'We go to that location to their house or what's left of their house with them,' Jenkins said. 'We have sifter boxes and we have buckets, and we literally pick up the ash with shovels, put it in the sifter box and sift.' More than 100 vehicles are involved in a pileup on a snowy Oregon highway, with injuries reported They have searched for wedding rings, family treasures and other precious items spared by the flames but hidden in the ash. 'When we find it, there's just this emotion of joy and relief that they do have that, that momentum from their past,' Rand Jenkins with Texans on Mission said. 'But then even if we don't find something, it brings them a little closure.' To help their efforts, people can donate to Texans on Mission or Southern Baptist Texas Convention Relief Team. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
