'Broke my heart': Father, son describe deadly Wilson County tornado
Upon arriving on scene to it
You know with the fire department you know just seeing
the destruction the whole front of the school being blown
off um brickwork laying everywhere insulation all over the place
having the metal off the roof blown all out into
the highway in front of the school trees laying everywhere
I mean it's just destruction everywhere houses across the road
seeing the the destruction of those is just devastating to
see this happening in your small town community
Let me it just broke my heart because I was
looking forward to starting a new seventh grade year with
all my friends after the summer playing sports and stuff
like that
And then whenever we got here and I saw it
was all tore up it was just I was in
shock
Mm
Not really just yeah
Not really
Oh yes
One of my sixth grade classrooms from last year was
the main site of destruction
It looks like it was already set up for a
new school year for a bunch of fifth graders to
come in and have a good school year too
Going into uh you know a new school year and
your school looks like this
One of my questions is what am I gonna do
Like where am I gonna go now And stuff like
that because it's ruined
And then another question is if it happens again in
the future what are we gonna do again Uh and
what about you dad You know Uh well I we
have a excellent school system here in Wilson County
You know our our superintendents all the way down you
know to the staff here at Springfield Middle you know
I made contact with the principal yesterday morning you know
early morning hours of what was going on
You know just the questions the answers that we were
getting that early on you know Doctor Mills
He's been phenomenal you know throughout the past with handling
situations like this in our county
Do you want the So you might have to um
right now it's just you know what's next what what's
gonna happen you know to the kids I think there's
roughly 400 between 436 450 kids that attend the school
you know are are they gonna be split up are
they gonna have to go to different areas Are we
going back to remote learning until they can fix this
You know what's our next steps as a community to
rebuild after the devastation that we've gone through I hear
more questions
Yeah
You kind of touched on community kind of talk about
the community
Like what did you see Obviously this is very visible
but what did you see in the coming hours mornings
Um kind of as daylight woke up
You know like I said earlier being one of the
the local first responders here with the volunteer fire department
in luu comma you know first and foremost I want
I do want to to give a shout out to
Wilson 911 tele communicators
They handled this with 100% calmness you know you never
saw the stress that come out of them
Um And then just getting the resources to where we
need it
You know a as the morning come up we've got
houses along Wiggins Mill Road Lloyd Road Scott's Church Road
all within a mile two miles of this area
You know that there's just complete destruction to homes you
know where where where are they going You know that's
my biggest concern
Um It is just making sure everybody's safety is first
and foremost put at hand you know what's going on
Um We had you know multiple houses that did you
know obviously have trees going through them
Um a local church here in the community that's destroyed
you know probably two miles away
Um Just friends family you know people you know you
you you just wanna help them you know there there's