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Storm Washes Home Off Cement Blocks In Irwin Trailer Park

Posted: 10:52 am EDT June 18, 2009Updated: 6:51 pm EDT June 19, 2009

Ten people had to evacuate a mobile home park in Irwin during the storms Wednesday night.

Rising water washed cement steps away from trailers and, in one case, was flowing strong enough to move a mobile home off its cement blocks.

"The devastation inside is really bad, …basically waist-high in my trailer,” said trailer park resident Greg Tickerhoof. “The whole thing is messed up. I couldn't have even trashed it better myself."

Three shelters were set up in Westmoreland County overnight at the Trafford Fire Department, the Lutheran Church in Penn Borough and a church along Kennedy Avenue in Export.

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