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Residents continue recovery and cleanup efforts on May 23, 2024, with the help of family and friends following Tuesday s destructive tornado in Greenfield, Iowa. The storm was responsible for several deaths in the small community. / Credit: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesCNA Staff, May 24, 2024 / 18:08 pm (CNA).Ever since a massive tornado ripped through the small town of Greenfield, Iowa, the afternoon of May 21, St. John s Catholic Church has been mobilizing volunteers to provide material assistance and respite to those in need. According to a blog post from the Diocese of Des Moines, St. John s opened its doors the afternoon of the disaster to provide shelter, food, a place for the community to charge their phones, and to rest. That evening the parish provided pizza in their parking lot until 9 p.m. and Greenfield residents used the parish hall to charge their phones until 10 p.m. Believed to be an EF-4 based on data from the National Weather Service, the tornado, which l.

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