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Deadly flooding in eastern Kentucky
By Adrienne Vogt, Veronica Rocha, Elise Hammond and Meg Wagner, CNN
Teen saves herself and her dog by swimming to roof where she waited for several hours during flooding
From CNN’s Caroll Alvarado and Sharif Paget
Chloe Adams, 17, saved herself and her dog by swimming to a neighbor’s roof where she sat for several hours until she was rescued during Thursday’s flooding in Kentucky.
Terry Adams, the teen’s father, told CNN his daughter was at home in Whitesburg, Kentucky, when the flash flooding started. Adams said his daughter saved her dog by putting the dog in a plastic container and swimming with it to a nearby roof.
Chloe lives with her grandfather but they were separated when the rushing flood waters made it impossible for Chloe to reach her grandfather, her father said. The family took shelter in her uncle’s home while Chloe had to wait to be rescued.
“My daughter is safe and whole tonight,” Adams posted on Facebook. “We lost everything today...everything except what matters most.”
According to Adams, his daughter was rescued by a man who used his kayak to save the teen and her dog. Chloe’s grandfather also escaped uninjured.
Adams shared a photo with CNN, which showed his daughter and her dog sitting on the roof of a home while everything around them was under several feet of water.
Chloe told CNN she’s still in shock and processing everything that happened. She took a video of what she was witnessed while she waited on the roof. The video shows Chloe and her dog sitting on a small section of a roof that is mostly under water while surrounded by flood waters.
27 employees of eastern Kentucky's largest health service unaccounted for in flooding
From CNN’s Andy Rose
The largest health service in eastern Kentucky has not been able to reach more than two dozen of its employees since devastating flooding began in the region Thursday.
“Right now, 27 team members are unaccounted for,” Appalachian Regional Healthcare CEO Hollie Phillips told CNN Friday afternoon.
Phillips said most of the missing employees work at the ARH hospital in Hazard, one of the largest of their 12 hospitals in Kentucky. “We pray that our employees are healthy and safe,” she said.
All ARH hospitals have remained open during the crisis, although some workers have had to be reassigned to other locations in order to cover unavailable workers, according to Phillips. She says many of their nearly 100 clinics are closed.
“We have one clinic that we believe we have lost completely,” said Phillips, with another two possibly unsalvageable in Floyd County.
Despite difficulties with staffing and accessibility, Phillips says ARH has been able to continue critical functions at all of its hospitals.
“Our emergency departments are very, very busy,” she said.
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