Evansville Fire Department fire captain Don Spindler runs out of a burning apartment building at 869 Covert Avenue in Evansville, Ind. carrying a young girl who was unconscious but breathing when found on the top floor of the building. Another young girl and their mother, Kristyn Frazier, were also pulled from the building and were also unconscious but breathing at the scene on September 6, 2011. Frazier died at the hospital from smoke inhalation the next day.
Flames kick up higher than firefighters spraying water atop a ladder truck as a fire rages at a commercial garage at 610 East Franklin Street on Sunday night, July 31, 2011 around 9:30pm in Evansville, Ind.
Forest Hill Wesleyan Church pastor Michael Stoelting examines the damage to the inside of his church after a fire destroyed it early Sunday morning, January 3, 2011.
Department of Animal Control officer Anthony Crothers holds up a cat by the tail that he originally believed to be an opossum on Monday afternoon, February 7, 2011. The cat had an aluminum can stuck to it's head and rain matted its fur giving it the appearance of an opossum. While opossums routinely hang from their tails in trees, cats hate having their tails pulled. In just the few seconds Crothers held the cat it whipped around and sunk it's teeth into his gloved left hand before releasing and running off. Crothers suffered a minor bite wound through his leather glove.
Tony Woolbright makes his way through the rubble of his home at 3902 First Street Northeast in Holt, a community of Tuscaloosa, Ala. located just outside city limits in Tuscaloosa County. Woolbright was at home with his 91-year-old mother and his girlfriend, Rhonda Pugh, when the tornado struck their home. Woolbright and Pugh ran down to the basement but Woolbright's mother decided to stay in her room in the corner of the home because her walker made it difficult to get into the basement.
"As soon as we got down to the basement you could hear the roar of the freight train," Woolbright said. "The back wall got sucked out and it tried to suck us out but we were holding onto a post."
The family survived and only suffered minor bruising. The room Woolbright's mother was in was the only room of the house to survive and her easy chair remained in the corner she road out the storm.
"She sat right there and said, 'the good lord's gonna take care of me,' and he did," said Woolbright. "You know what's miraculous, her bible was sitting on the desk by the window and her bible didn't move."
Brett Schelhorn hauls a sandbag over to a wall of thousands at the Faith Bible Church on Thursday morning, April 28, 2011 where he and dozens of other volunteers and members of the Civic Air Patrol filled and prepped thousands of sandbags to be distributed throughout the Evansville area to combat ongoing flooding. A a solid week of heavy rain throughout the region brought the worst flooding since 1937 to Evansville.
Jim and Heather King are greeted by their five-year-old golden-doodle, Maggie, after firefighters rescued her from the King's burning home on Wednesday afternoon, March 30, 2011. A fire broke out on the second floor of the King's home at 204 College Highway while no one was home but Maggie.
