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Command Center

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Command Center
Command Center

Danielle Moss is at the command center for storm rescue crews.

Officials tell us what they are doing.

Where we ... are on our twitter pagetouched valley late last night and early this morning.

East brainered was one of the hardest hit areas.

The chattanooga fire department has set up a command center to help those impacted by the storms. news 12 now's danielle moss has more from the command center.

Dan stand: i'm here at lowe's on gunbarrel road this is the command center for all emergency personnel fire firefighters, police officers, the sheriffs department, and state troopers are all meeting here for their assignments.

There are agencies here from outside of hamilton county and chattanooga all for search, recovery and rescue.

Chief phil hyman-" well the main focus was to answer all of the 9-1-1 calls and all of the down trees, damaged houses and just trying to get all of the folks that are in need of emergency services as quickly as we could.

I think that we are starting to move into that recovery phase.

We still have a lot of work to do to go from house to house to do damage assessments and determine if anybody else was trapped.

We're waiting on this next round of rain.

Between 5 and 8 is a little bit of a concern with us with more high winds coming.

But, i think we have enough resources to manage the ordeal."

Dan stand:chief hyman says that at this time all of their 9-1-1 calls have diminished and they are so thankful for all of the help they have received.

Reporting in chattanooga, danielle moss news 12 now.

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