Safety officials said Oklahomans returning to their tornado-damaged homes in the next few days should be aware that entering a disaster-site after the fact still carries a host of potential dangers.

“Even though you’re coming back to what’s left of your own home,” Ray Ridlen said, Horticulture and Agriculture Educator at the Oklahoma County OSU Cooperative Extension Service. “There are still plenty of hazards that can cause serious injury.”

For instance, walls left standing in a home may be highly unstable, Ridlen pointed out, or what looks like simple debris may be covering exposed electrical wires or broken gas lines.

MOORE, Okla. – The deaths of children at Plaza Towers Elementary calls for a change.

Right now there is no state law requiring schools to have safe rooms or tornado shelters; only 100 of the our 1,800 schools have them. 

However, state leaders and a corporation are mobilizing grief into action.

A new fund set up with $500,000 seed money from Apache Energy Corporation is going to make sure Moore schools have storm shelters.

State House Representative Jon Echols is one of the lawmakers behind it.

“What we have done, a bipartisan group in the house of reps decided to start a non-profit that will focus on retro-fitting and putting tornado shelters in Oklahoma schools.”

The Apache money is specifically earmarked for Moore but the hope is the fund will expand.

MOORE, Okla. – Heartbreak, devastation and the city picking up the pieces after a deadly tornado ripped through Moore, Oklahoma, on Monday.

Now, one day later as families mourn, the clean-up and recovery effort continues throughout the area.

The medical examiner’s office has confirmed 24 people have been killed in Monday’s Moore tornado; at least 230 have been injured.

Amy Ellis with the medical examiner’s office said of the 24, nine are children.