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| photo courtesy of AP: Damaged vehicles in parking lot of St. John's Hospital after tornado hit in Joplin, MO |
By: Rob Reuteman,
Special to CNBC.com
Bobby Lewis was watching TV and playing with his granddaughter on a quiet Sunday evening in May when one of his employees at ServiceMaster’s nearby disaster operations center telephoned.
“We just got word a tornado went through Joplin, Missouri,” Lewis recalls the employee telling him.
ServiceMaster, where Lewis is vice president of disaster restoration, is headquartered in Memphis, where 200 of its 1,200 employees man the operations center 24/7.
They monitor different public and private weather-alert services, “police and fire channels, anywhere we can get input on what’s going on,” says Lewis. Read more
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