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Tornado Drill Saves Lives at Sumner School
Virginia Reid a fifth grade teacher from Sumner Mississippi spoke from her hospital bed after a tornado wrecked West District Junior High and elementary School injuring 40 students and two teachers. No deaths were reported. The drill prompted by a weather warning likely saved many lives as the twister struck the rear wing and classrooms.
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