Law Enforcement ‘Brotherhood’ Is Challenged To Help Big Stone Gap Detective
March 7, 2008 | Virginia News
BIG STONE GAP, Va. – Police officers from Wise County and the surrounding areas dropped everything Tuesday night and drove with sirens blaring to this Southwest Virginia town after a twister roared through it.
Even the most seasoned officers were shocked at the debris field and the one-mile long, 330-yards-wide path of destruction that an EF-1 tornado cut through the Poplar Hills section of town.
Their hearts sank even more when they learned that one of their own – Big Stone Gap Police Detective Turk Hollinger – lost his home and nearly all of his belongings as he directed traffic in the storm.
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