One of the many places impacted by the 2024 Cottonwood tornado is the Cottonwood Volunteer Fire Department. Today, exactly one year after that deadly tornado came through the Houston County ...

Catie Dahl saw the pickup truck sinking through the ice on Cottonwood Lake. What happened next was kind of a blur, she said.

Eventually, the money dries up, but volunteer fire departments also face manpower issues. “When I first started being a volunteer firefighter, we had many businesses in Cottonwood. Whenever we ...