1 person dead, 23 injured after tornado slams Gaylord

GAYLORD, Mich. (AP) — A tornado that hammered a northern Michigan town has injured at least 23 people and killed at least one person.

Munson Healthcare spokesman Brian Lawson said Friday that he had no details about the person who was killed or the conditions of those who were hurt by the tornado that rushed through Gaylord, a city of about 4,200 roughly 230 miles (370 kilometers) northwest of Detroit at around 3:45 p.m.

Michigan State Police released some updated information about the injured and the one fatality on Twitter: “Patients have been taken to Otsego Memorial Hospital (OMH) in Gaylord, Grayling Hospital, and McLaren Northern Michigan Hospital in Petoskey. At this time we can confirm 23 patients were treated at OMH. We have one confirmed dead at this time.”

Lawson said the pace of people being brought to Gaylord-Otsego Memorial Hospital had slowed since the hours right after the storm.

“From what I’m gathering things have stabilized a bit,” he said.

The tornado tore through the small Northern Michigan community just before 4 p.m. on Friday, inflicting injuries, flipping vehicles, tearing the roofs off buildings and causing other damage.

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