Elephant Helps With Joplin Tornado Cleanup (video)

As featured on FOX 4 KC and New York Magazine, a circus elephant has been helping to pull cars and move debris. Cleanup continues in Joplin, Missouri, where a massive tornado leveled most of the city with 200 mph winds last week, and an unlikely helping hand has joined the relief efforts.


According to The Daily Mail, the Piccadilly Circus was scheduled to perform in Joplin but their venue is now being used as a temporary hospital to treat victims. But rather than move on to the next destination, they volunteered their strongest staff member — a trained elephant — to help clean up.

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