Saving Selma: Clean up efforts move forward at cemetery - WAKA 8

Montgomery, Alabama

The January 12th tornado downed a lot of trees in New Live Oak Cemetery in Selma. And the clean-up effort there — has been moving forward — carefully and methodically.

The effort to clean up the cemetery after the storm — has been a long — slow — and demanding process. “And then we had to remove it a certain kind of way. We just couldn’t drag it out of here. It takes time and it’s meticulous work.”“You had the teams come in and move the big trees and the major stuff. We’re going through here fine tuning it. You know bringing the cemetery back to its beautiful state, its sacred state,” Wells said.

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