A family living in a Morgan County house got a rude awakening in the morning when their roof caved in due to the heavy snow.
Brendel said firefighters had difficulty shutting off the utilities from outside of the house, due to the deep snow.
"We wanted to control utilities because trying to know what a building's going to do, you never know for sure, so we don't where the gas lines are, where the electric lines are. We don't know what's going on in the garage because it was totally collapsed, and we couldn't go in there, so we were going to shut down things from the outside. But we have a minor problem: all this white stuff," he explained.
Recently, the fire department purchased and ran drills with snow shoes to help with rescue and recovery efforts. "The guys went around the rear where they would not have been able to do that because of snow more than waist deep," Brendel said. "We were unable to shut the gas off. We had to wait for Dominion Gas to get there. As it turned out, they didn't have snow shoes so they borrowed our snow shoes.
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