

A nearby production theater was flattened and its actors and attendees were streaming our way and people from area homes started flooding our ambulance bay doors," said Edens. We then started to receive the walking wounded. "When we got outside, we saw how extensive the damage was to the hospital and surrounding area.

Terri Edens, an emergency room nurse with the hospital was on her shift, "When things settled down, we evacuated patients and grabbed what medical supplies and water we could and continued their care in a parking lot outside of the hospital."

With little warning a multiple-vortex tornado plowed through the community on the evening of May 22nd. John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo, sending shattered glass on top of critically ill patients and sweeping up furniture, supplies and medicine into a whirlwind within the violently shaking walls of the hospital.
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