Woman killed after church roof collapses during tornado strike in St. Louis

Katie Byrne de Fox Weather is in St. Louis, where a probable tornado hit and destroyed a church. She has the last of all her heart.

San Luis – Seven people were killed after a tornado crossed parts of Missouri on Friday night, with five of those deaths from St. Louis alone.

One of those lost lives was a 70 -year -old woman who was a moderator in the Centennial Christian Church, located in the neighborhood of Fountain Park in the northwest of St. Louis, which received a direct blow from the storm.

The tornado crashed into the church, knocked part of his roof and caught the people who took refuge under the rubble. The images of the church after the storm show parts of its completely missing roof and the red brick of its walls cover the front grass.

“It is devastating to listen to someone from the church,” said Maurice Jones, resident of St. Louis, Fox Weather. “We are all trying to put together life at this time.”

Some of the damage to the ceiling in the Centennial Christian Church.

(Katie Byrne / Fox Weather)

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The boxes of other nearby houses could be seen without their roofs, exposing families to the elements. They were part of at least 5,000 houses in St. Louis who experienced some kind of storm damage, according to the mayor of St. Louis Cara Spencer.

“The area is affected by this, and I really don’t know how to recover from this,” Jones told Fox’s weather correspondent, Katie Byrne.

Maurice Jones.

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Jones, describing the moment he tried to seek refuge from the storm, said his house also suffered damage.

“I arrive at the back of my house. Mi, it was literally sucking my hand and in an instant I could see the roof of my kitchen with my finger down,” he said.

In addition to having, their homes, many families are struggling to find food, since the storm knocked out power, letting the food spoil since freezers and refrigerators could no longer work.

The images of drones about St. Louis show parts of the Centennial Christian Church roof collapsed, since the nearby houses withdrew the roofs and the walls collapsed.

For those whose houses no longer have roofs, they need tar to cover what they have left of their homes.

“It’s emotional. I don’t know what to say, but it’s difficult,” Andre Branyon told Byrne. “This is difficult here. I can see that people are happening. This is difficult.”

Hi, he added that this is the first time this son of devastation of a storm is experienced.

Andre Branyon.

(Katie Byrne / Fox Weather)

“I really don’t know what to say. I’m injured,” Branyon said.

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Around 34,000 clients in St. Louis county were still without energy or Saturday morning, according to Findergy.org.