A “terrible” fire at Brookdale Senior Livingin Clinton, Mississippi, on Wednesday prompted evacuations and secondary searches, Governor Tate Reeves said on X.
Reeves called the blaze “truly an awful situation,” adding that the Mississippi State Department of Health, multiple fire departments and emergency crews are on scene.
Clinton is more than 10 miles northwest of Jackson, the state capital.
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Marlee Price-Cook, director of communications for Clinton, told Newsweek that around 5 p.m. local time, the Clinton Fire Department responded to the facility, which houses 102 people…