Over the past few days, we’ve been hearing a lot about the candle factory in Mayfield, Ky, that was brutally wiped out by the series of severe tornadoes that swept through the Midwest and Southeastern US early Saturday morning. The strong storms, straight-line winds, and freak, mid-December tornadoes ultimately left behind a path of destruction and despair in Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
However, the hardest-hit area was the semi-southern state of Kentucky — where Democratic Governor Andy Beshear recently announced that the death toll is fully expected to exceed 100 fatalities before all the search and rescue efforts are said and done.
Most notable to be hit in the Bluegrass state was the Mayfield Consumer Products factory, where the roof collapsed with about 110 workers inside. Of those 110 Kentuckians, Beshear said about 40 of them had been reduced from the collapsed factory building. The governor said that while he’s hopeful, and continues to pray, he does not expect anymore live rescues to be made from the factory.
Now, video footage is showing us just how severe the situation truly was inside the Mayfield Consumer Products factory, after one employee went live from inside the building, where she was trapped due to the tornado, pleading for help with a colleague of hers.
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In the 10-minute live stream, filmed in almost complete darkness, Kyanna Lou can be heard pleading and begging for help, saying she and a colleague of hers are “stuck” behind a wall in the candle factory after the tornado tore through the building and caused the roof to collapse.
I’m really scared, I’m trying to be cool, but I’m really scared,” Lou can be heard saying in the video.
“I don’t know who’s watching. We got hit by a hurricane. I’m at work in Mayfield and we are trapped.”
“Please y’all, give us some help. We are at the candle factory in Mayfield. Please, please,” she pleads.
In the background, the screams and cries of several others trapped in the building can be heard.
“They told us not to move because if we move it’ll cause the stuff to fall more,” Lou states before adding that her legs had gone numb and she couldn’t move them. The 7:17 mark or so in the video appears to show another woman buried under rubble and debris in the collapsed factory building.
Two hours later, Lou posted a second video, telling the camera that she had been rescued from the rubble, with tears streaming down her face.
The videos are beyond difficult to watch, and truly break your soul for the ones who didn’t make it out.
Now take Global Warming seriously.
Featured image via screen capture
