Sirens were going off all morning in Enterprise, Ala. before a tornado hit last week prompting questions about whether high school children should have been evacuated sooner. Eight students died when the twister struck.
School administrators say that they had "no chance" to evacuate earlier because of the impending tornado and accompanying severe weather. They felt the students were safer at school and that the death count might have been higher if students were outside or on their way home when the tornado hit.
The governor of Alabama stood by the administrators' decision after touring the school. Many students died when a concrete hallway collapsed.
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