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- A large Pfizer plant in Nash County, North Carolina, was heavily damaged by a Wednesday tornado. No serious injuries were reported.
- The tornado, which tore through the Rocky Mount metropolitan area, also damaged several nearby homes. Pfizer is one of the region’s top employers.
- Nash County Sheriff Keith Stone noted “reports of 50,000 pallets of medicine that are strewn across the facility and damaged through the rain and the wind.”
A tornado heavily damaged a large Pfizer pharmaceutical plant in North Carolina on Wednesday, the latest in a string of extreme weather events plaguing the U.S. on a day when floods deluged communities in Kentucky and scorching heat smothered Phoenix and Miami.
Pharmaceutical company Pfizer confirmed that a large complex was damaged by a twister that tore through the Rocky Mount area, but said in an email that it had no reports of serious injuries at the facility.
The Pfizer plant stores large quantities of medicine that were tossed about by the storm, Nash County Sheriff Keith Stone said, adding, “I’ve got reports of 50,000 pallets of medicine that are strewn across the facility and damaged through the rain and the wind.”
SEVERE WEATHER FROM MIDWEST TO MID-ATLANTIC BRINGS TORNADO, FLASH FLOODING RISKS
Pfizer is one of the largest employers in Nash County, where the sheriff’s office also confirmed damage to several homes.
Meanwhile, an onslaught of searing temperatures and rising floodwaters continued to strike other areas of the U.S., with Phoenix breaking an all-time temperature record and rescuers pulling people from rain-swamped homes and vehicles in Kentucky.
Forecasters said there was little relief in sight from days of extreme weather for large swaths of the nation.
Miami has endured a heat index of at 100 degrees Fahrenheit or more for weeks, with temperatures expected to rise this weekend.
In Kentucky, meteorologists warned of a “life-threatening situation” in the communities of Mayfield and Wingo, inundated by flash flooding from…
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