The Hamilton County Office of Emergency Management’s Emergency Operations
Center can confirm three fatalities following the severe weather that hit
Chattanooga and Hamilton County Tuesday night. Saturated ground caused a
large tree to fall on a car in the 1100 block of South Moore Road in East
Ridge early Wednesday morning, killing two adults and a child. Hamilton
County Mayor Weston Wamp is meeting with OEM officials and East Ridge first
responders this morning to survey the damage from severe flash flooding and
discuss next steps heading into a rainy Wednesday forecast. Meanwhile in
Chattanooga, search efforts continue for a man who went through flood
waters on East Brainerd Road on foot last night and has not been seen
since.
A flood watch is in effect for Wednesday, per the National Weather Service.
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