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Tornado touchdown
23 April 2008 — A tornado reportedly touched down in Wayne County north of Goldsboro last Saturday afternoon, stripping the roof off a family’s double-wide trailer and blowing one mobile home into another across the road.
A family of three lives in the trailer at 285 Princeton Road in the Oakland community near the Johnston County line, authorities said. They lost their roof at 3:30 p.m., about the time a Wilson County Sheriff’s deputy traveling south on Interstate 795 reported the tornado on the ground a few miles east between Pikeville and Goldsboro.
“The people were home, but they got in the closet when the storm came through,” said David Lassiter, assistant chief with the Oakland Fire Department. “They were not hurt.”
The local chapter of the American Red Cross was on the scene Saturday evening, helping the family to find a place to stay. In a light rain, volunteer firefighters were loading their belongings into a tractor-trailer to protect them.
Lassiter said across the road the wind also blew a vacant single-wide trailer into a nearby double-wide, knocking it off its blocks. Neither was occupied at the time, he said.
Authorities also reported fallen trees and power lines throughout Wayne County.
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Saturday, April 26 – Hephzibah Baptist Church Betty Massey Circle yard sale in church parking lot (in Fellowship Building in case of rain), 7 a.m.-noon
Sunday, April 27 – Performance by The Living Waters at Crossroads Church of God of Prophecy in Selma, 6:30 p.m.
Monday, April 28 – WorkKeys career readiness test in Room 220 of Wayne Learning Center at Wayne Community College (pre-register by noon), 5-8 p.m.; “The Politics of Terrorism” lecture in Moffatt Auditorium at Wayne Community College, 7-9 p.m.; Deadline to register for Rosewood First Baptist Church Growing in Grace Women’s Conference to be held May 3 (email bkeen78@hotmail.com or call 734-5571 to register)
Tuesday, April 29 – First session of pediatric advanced life support class at auditorium of Johnston Medical Mall ($200 per class, pre-register by calling 938-7736), 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; QuickBooks workshop in Room 219 of Magnolia Building at Wayne Community College (call 735-5151 ext. 334 by Apr. 25 to register), 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Wednesday, April 30 – Last session of pediatric advanced life support class at auditorium of Johnston Medical Mall, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
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