At least four killed in Tennessee flooding following historic storms

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00:00At least four people have died in historic flooding in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

00:11City of Chattanooga, we've had flash floods in the past, but nothing to this extreme that happened yesterday.

00:20Fire Chief Terry Knowles tells Straight Arrow News a family of two adults and one child died after a tree fell on their car.

00:27Another person died after being swept away by floodwaters.

00:31The flooding also shut down Interstate 24 in both directions.

00:35Just to see that look like, you know, the Tennessee River or one of our large creeks, Chickamauga Creek,

00:42just, you know, looking at it and it looks like a body of water, not an interstate, was just, I mean, it was one, it was scary for people.

00:51Two, it was very concerning for us because we knew the amount of cars that we were going to have in it

00:56and the people in those cars.

00:58The flooding also forced his department to conduct around 100 swift water rescues around the county

01:04and more than 50 in the city of Chattanooga.

01:07Knowles said his department and the rest of the local and state agencies came together to help their community.

01:13We're one team when it comes down to disasters or emergency incidents.

01:17You know, Director Adams said in the last press conference, we leave the egos at the door, all the departments and all the agencies,

01:25and we're working together as one.

01:27And it showed yesterday, just like it shows with anything else that we do in the city and the county.

01:34The Chattanooga Airport got more than six inches of rain in one day, the second most since recording began in 1879.

01:43For Straight Arrow News, I'm Maureen Keenan.

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