VIDEO/PHOTOS: Saturday’s tornado left scattered supplies and a destroyed station for the Gibson County Fire Department in Rutherford. Though grateful for no casualties, John Baker, the Battalion Chief for the Gibson County Fire Department, calls the destruction unnerving.
Damaged equipment is being gathered for inventory and assessed for usability.
Firefighters were even searching across fields for scattered equipment. The focus is on general clean up.
Damaged trucks are being looked at by insurance to see what can be fixed.
“It appears that we have a 100 percent total loss of the station. Some of the equipment is salvageable,” said Baker. “We don’t have a home but we still make calls.”
Baker says he was in the office when the storm hit, causing the most damage to their truck bay.