'I know we've lost more than 80 Kentuckians. That number is going to exceed more than 100. This is the deadliest tornado event we've ever had,' says Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear on the tornado aftermath
, more than 100 people were working in the candle factory when the storm hit — a reflection of increased demand during the holidays.
Emergency response workers dig through the rubble of the Mayfield Consumer Products candle factory in Mayfield, Ky. "Boom. Everything came down on us. And all you heard was screams," Kyanna Parsons-Perez, who was trapped in the factory and recorded part of the experience on Facebook Live, told NBC's "Today" on Saturday.
"You can hear people screaming and praying in Spanish," she added after explaining that many Latinos worked there.Jarring images from Mayfield show cars, building scraps and trees in hulking piles of debris as rescuers searched for survivors."A candle factory there — it'll be a miracle if pull anybody else out of that," Beshear said Sunday. "It's now 15 feet deep of steel and cars on top of where the roof was. It's tough.
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