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             Bridgeton, MO
On a very scary night in late April of 2011
the Greater St Louis area was hit by a
F-4 tornado. 
Bridgeton has started the recovery by 
partially filling a park near the city center
with close to ten acres of debris.

Robert Gunn, Director of Public Works, City of Bridgeton:
Well when the tornado hit on Good Friday April 22nd I was at home with my family. I got the phone call about 830 and came to work that night and brought our whole police department in. We had pretty much everybody working around the clock the first 24 hours to keep the roads open and get everything cleaned up and pushed over to the side ever since then public works has been on an operation to remove the debris and bring it to this location where the city will chip it process it for removal from the city. A week after the storm we started meeting with our FEMA reps and we toured the city and all the destruction of the homes that had taken place and looking at all the debris piles that were out there. FEMA has met with us several times almost every other day. They have been a great help to us and we are still early on in the process and they have been helping us every step of the way.
Conrad W. Bowers, Mayor, City of Bridgeston:
The tornado --- Bridgeston was the hardest hit in the area. We had the F-4 storm, the winds peaked at Bridgeton and devastated an area behind my house even and I'm very fortunate we are living in the house but just flattened many homes and uh if people get it to the curb Bridgeston is going to pick it up. 
This is where we keep pushing to get all the limbs and trees here and once we get started uh grinding we'll set up the grinder here and turn all this here into chips.
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