Indiana State Police and other emergency responders evacuated campers in McCormick’s Creek State Park after a severe storm Friday.
Emergency management officials were out overnight and into Saturday after a swath of storms, some with suspected tornadoes, tore through Indiana on Friday night and early Saturday.
In Owen County, a group of more than 20 emergency personnel were returning early Saturday to McCormick’s Creek State Park near Spencer to do a more extensive search for people, according to Jack White with Owen County EMS.
“We have a daylight search crew searching the state park that was just devastated,” White said, adding he and others didn’t feel comfortable not going back after the search on Friday night, done in the dark.
White feels “extremely fortunate” that there were no fatalities in the state park. Several of the people camping there sought shelter in one of the park’s bathhouses, which White said may have saved their lives since much of the campground area was reportedly “flattened.
