Its Pop Radio | radioNOVO News for Dubois/Clarion/Brookville 07-08-26

Good morning.Emergency services are assessing regional structural damages this morning after severe weather triggered over six hundred emergency calls across Jefferson County. Emergency Management Director Tracy Zents reports that a high-velocity microburst packing sixty-five-mile-per-hour straight-line winds severely impacted the Punxsutawney area, downing critical utility infrastructure. High call volumes forced neighboring county dispatch centers to process rollover calls to ensure no emergencies were lost, while localized flash flooding caused minor washouts and a partial residential garage collapse in Timblin.Meanwhile, an investigation continues today after a seventy-one-year-old male inmate died in custody at the Clearfield County Jail. Authorities state the inmate suffered an apparent cardiac event, and despite immediate lifesaving measures from jail staff and arriving paramedics, he could not be revived. Chief Deputy Coroner Gilbert Stevenson pronounced the man dead, and an autopsy is scheduled to determine the official cause of death.And state police fire marshals have ruled a residential structure fire on Tozier Avenue in DuBois as accidental. Widespread volunteer crews from seven local hose companies rapidly responded to the working second-floor blaze, while quick-thinking bystanders entered the smoke-filled home ahead of firefighters to successfully rescue two family cats. The fire caused an estimated seventy thousand dollars in structural damage.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.