Indiana Gov. Mike Braun on Wednesday said he expects to declare a statewide emergency following severe storms that caused widespread wind damage in northwest Indiana and significant flooding in central parts of the state.
Braun said multiple state agencies, including the Indiana Department of Homeland Security, Indiana National Guard, and Indiana Department of Natural Resources, have been helping local governments with the response to the storms.
“A lot of resources from the state will be here,” Braun said at a press conference on Wednesday in Hammond. “The state’s going to be fully involved along the way. With everything I’ve seen so far, it’s going to be probably a statewide emergency declaration, because this thing started up here [in northwest Indiana], and it moved all the way down across the state to the southeast.”…