Singer Taylor Swift donates $1 million to victims of Tennessee tornadoes

Popular singer Taylor Swift prolonged her assist to individuals in Tennessee who had been ravaged by tornadoes by donating $1 million to the Tennessee Emergency Response Fund on the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee.

Hal Cato, CEO of the neighborhood basis, confirmed Swift’s contribution, reported USA Today.

Though she’s typically seen socialising on the East Coast, the singer, who was named Time journal’s Person of the Year not too long ago, has ties to Nashville, the place she nonetheless lives and has her workplace, the American newspaper reported.

At least six individuals died within the US state of Tennessee in consequence of a storm that hit the state on Saturday (December 9, 2023), with three casualties in Montgomery County and three within the metropolis of Nashville in Davidson County, in accordance to native authorities and police.

“Multiple energy traces/poles down alongside Gallatin N/OHB space. Severe harm alongside Nesbitt Ln the place there are at the least 3 fatalities,” the Nashville police earlier stated on X.

The metropolis’s mayor had declared a state of emergency.

A state of emergency was additionally declared within the metropolis of Clarksville in Montgomery County.