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Greensburg residents not only lost their homes after the EF-5 tornado struck May 4, 2007, but the schools were destroyed along with the businesses in the small Kansas community. FEMA provided immediate assistance and delivered temporary housing so that residents could remain in town to rebuild their homes and businesses and attend a temporary school facility established to keep the community together.
FEMA temporary housing provided the flexibility necessary for the town's recovery so that the schools would have students, business would have employees and customers, and the whole community of Greensburg would have the opportunity to come back.
All footage was shot in the days following the May 4, 2007 tornado and between April 17 - 18, 2008. Videos depict interviews with Darin Headrick, superintendent of schools for Unified School District 422; Cassie Kirby, board clerk for the Unified School District 422; and Mike Estes, store manager for BTI Greensburg.
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