Residents in Nashville, Illinois, were ordered to evacuate their homes Tuesday morning due to an imminent dam failure, according to local emergency responders.
“Failure of the Nashville dam is imminent,” a Facebook post from the Washington County Emergency Management Agency reads. “Please evacuate your home at this time. If you are in the grey box, you need evacuate now!”
Around 9:45 a.m. CT, Alex Haglund with the management agency told local outlet KSDK-TV a secondary dam had failed. At 9:50 a.m., the agency posted date update to Facebook, indicating the surrounding area of the second dam had been flooded.
The small town of 3,100 is located in Washington County, about 55 miles southeast of St. Louis, Missouri.
The cause of the anticipated fam failure and the humber of homes expected to be impacted were not immediately known.
