


Television station WBRC reported that crews were using boats to search Pebble Creek.īy Monday morning, Claudette had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph. Other people were injured.Įlsewhere, a 24-year-old man and a 3-year-old boy were killed Saturday when a tree fell on their house just outside Tuscaloosa, and a 23-year-old Fort Payne woman died after her car ran off the road into a swollen creek, authorities said.Ī search was underway for a man believed to have fallen into the water during flash flooding in Birmingham. The crash also claimed the lives of two people in another vehicle - a 29-year-old Tennessee man and his 9-month-old daughter. Butler County Coroner Wayne Garlock said multiple vehicles probably hydroplaned. The children who died Saturday were in a van for a home for abused or neglected children when it erupted in flames in the wreck along a wet Interstate 65 about 35 miles south of Montgomery. ATLANTA - Claudette regained tropical storm status as it neared the coast of the Carolinas on Monday, less than two days after the system killed 13 people in Alabama, including eight children who died in a highway crash.
