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Southern Wisconsin Technical Rescue responds to Boone County

By Ann Marie Ames ( Contact )   January 7, 2008 - 4:51 p.m.

Officials reported that the tornado that charged through Boone County around 3:45 this afternoon knocked a house onto a person.

Technical rescue teams from Janesville, Beloit, town of Beloit, town of Turtle and Clinton were called to the scene at 4:30 p.m., but Boone County cancelled the page at 4:45.

The house that collapsed was near Highway 50 and County O south of the state line, Clinton fire chief John Rindfleisch said.




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