Indiana hopes weather radios save lives

INDIANA HOPES WEATHER RADIOS SAVE LIVES
[SOURCE: USAToday, AUTHOR: Theodore Kim and Rebecca Neal]
A first-of-its-kind law requiring mobile homes to come equipped with emergency weather radios will take effect next month in Indiana. The law is one of several initiatives among tornado-stricken states to bolster weather warnings. The statute, which applies to mobile homes installed at mobile home parks after June 30, is a response to a tornado that killed 25 people in southwestern Indiana in November 2005. Twenty of the victims lived in the Eastbrook Mobile Home Park in Evansville. The tornado struck in the middle of the night. Weather radios could have given residents enough time to seek shelter, National Weather Service spokesman Rick Shanklin said at the time.
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