UNION CITY, Mich. \u2014 Three people died and 12 people got hurt after a tornado pushed through the Union Lake area on Friday, according to the Branch County Sheriff’s Office. <\/p>\n
Of those injured, three people have been taken to the hospital for treatment. <\/p>\n
“Our thoughts are with those who have lost family, friends, and property during this incident,” deputies said.<\/p>\n
Emergency responders are on scene as of 8 p.m. <\/p>\n
Residents are asked to avoid any impacted areas to allow first responders to safely conduct response and recovery operations.<\/p>\n
In addition, community members are asked to follow safety precautions, including:<\/p>\n
Do not travel to or through the affected areasStay away from damaged or unstable structures, including any buildings marked by emergency personnel.Avoid downed power lines, fallen trees, and debris<\/p>\n
Additional severe weather is possible overnight Friday into Saturday. Residents should seek shelter immediately and continue monitoring forecasts for updated information. <\/p>\n
There may also be ongoing power outages, roads closed or restricted neighborhoods and possible interruptions to cell phone and internet service, deputies said. <\/p>\n
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Emergency crews are working to assess damage and clear impacted areas. Further updates will be released as information becomes available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNION CITY, Mich. \u2014 Three people died and 12 people got hurt after a tornado pushed through the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-508502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}