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Friday, Aug. 27, 2021

Does a photo show hundreds of coffins delivered by FEMA in Georgia?

Alan Duke, Lead Stories
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A woman posted a photo on social media of what she believed to be coffins, lots of coffins, on a Georgia roadside. And she made the jump to believing they came from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

"Something is brewing! Something is getting ready to jump off," she wrote.

In reality, the photo shows plastic burial vaults produced by a Covington, Georgia, manufacturer. The location has been used for years as an outdoor storage area for the vaults, which have been sold to individuals who don't need them yet, according to a Vantage Products Corporation spokeswoman. 

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