After The Storm: Bledsoe County building back stronger

AP 'napalm girl' photo from Vietnam War turns 40. In the picture, the girl will always be 9 years old and wailing "Too hot! Too hot!" as she runs down the road away from her burning Vietnamese village.

40 years after the 'napalm girl' photo

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BLEDSOE CO. (WRCB)-In Bledsoe County, an EF-4 tornado claimed the lives of four people on April 27, 2011. Residents along New Harmony Road say the still broken trees are a painful, daily reminder of what happened one year ago.

"It got real quiet and the finally it blew the door off the hinges and it took the roof off and then all of us closed our eyes and started screaming," tornado victim Riley Wooden said.

Riley Wooden's family was in the hallway, carrying a mattress to the bathroom to seek shelter, when the powerful storm threw them hundreds of feet away from their suddenly non-existent home.

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