{"id":2823,"date":"2025-03-17T12:58:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T12:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2025-03-17T12:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T12:58:14","slug":"drag-racer-survives-tornado-because-he-was-out-assisting-volunteer-fire-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/?p=2823","title":{"rendered":"DRAG RACER SURVIVES TORNADO BECAUSE HE WAS OUT ASSISTING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fortunately, Drag Racer Chad McElveen was out assisting Tylertown, MS Volunteer fire department with helping victims after tornado #1 when his home was in the direct path of a second tornado that came through his area yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_0127-2-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2820\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\"><\/p>\n<p>Chad lost everything including his home, shop, motorhome, trailer, and race car (dragster). However, Chad was not in the home because he was volunteering his time to help community victims.<\/p>\n<p>Racer Jim Blake said \u201c We can and will fix all of that because he&#8217;s still with us and that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m thankful tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks you to all my friends and racing family who have contacted me today to make sure we are OK. The bracket racing community is a special group of people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_0126-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2821\" width=\"1350\" height=\"1800\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_0128-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2822\" width=\"1350\" height=\"1800\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been a devastating day in Walthall county with 2 major tornados crossing the county in less than an hour. To see such destruction in your community is heart breaking,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Reports show over 34 dead across the US as the fierce storms crossed our territories yesterday. DragCoverage extends our deepest condolences to those families and wish Chad and everyone impacted a speedy recovery.<\/p>\n<p>A gofund me has been setup: https:\/\/gofund.me\/ca3776e6<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf8 Jim Blake<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortunately, Drag Racer Chad McElveen was out assisting Tylertown, MS Volunteer fire department with helping victims after tornado #1 when his home was in the direct path of a second tornado that came through his area yesterday. Chad lost everything including his home, shop, motorhome, trailer, and race car (dragster). However, Chad was not in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,58],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[54],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-bracket-racing"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_0127-1-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_0127-1-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"TJ Pruitt","author_link":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/author\/admin"},"authors":[{"term_id":54,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"admin","display_name":"TJ Pruitt","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6fdde352a01ed2be39f8cb735395b54c17edb1d8bcd2cc29ce5510de15709685?s=96&d=mm&r=g","first_name":"TJ","last_name":"Pruitt","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}