Knowing there were a lot of people in that place, a bunch of us went over and started trying to uncover what might be there,” Hayden said. “You wondered how anybody could still be alive in there. Graves County, Kentucky, Commissioner Todd Hayden told CNN’s Pamela Brown he arrived at the candle factory in the dark to find “nothing but a pile of rubble.” … They’re digging in that rubble by hand right now,” Gordon said. “Please call me … I’m looking for you, baby.”įirst responders have pulled “many, many” people out of the rubble, some alive and some apparently dead, storm chaser Michael Gordon told CNN Saturday morning from the scene. “I hope she’s somewhere safe,” Williams said, through tears. Ivy Williams was at the Mayfield site Saturday, looking for his wife of 30-plus years, who he says was at the factory. ‘Many, many’ people pulled from Kentucky factory The White House later said Biden had approved a federal emergency declaration for Kentucky. He said he had spoken with Beshear and “indicated that he has directed FEMA and other federal agencies to provide the speediest assistance possible to impacted communities,” the White House said. In an earlier message on Twitter, Biden called losing a loved one in storms like this an “unimaginable tragedy.”
And this is going to be the focus of my attention until we get this finished.” “I just think that we just have to keep at it. “My heart aches for those people right now, including the rescuers, including the burden on them and what they worry about,” Biden said. And so, I’m working with the governor of Kentucky and others who may want me to be there, I made sure that we’re a value-added at the time, and we’re not going to get in the way of the rescue and recovery, but I do plan on going,” he said. “When a president shows up, he shows up with an awful lot of personnel, an awful lot of vehicles, an awful lot of - we can get in the way, unintentionally. “I want to emphasize what I told all the governors, the federal government will do everything, everything you can possibly do to help,” he said, adding that he’d deploy the National Guard to states that deemed it necessary.īiden told reporters he plans to travel to the region to survey storm damage when circumstances allow but didn’t want to be in the way. President Joe Biden told reporters traveling with him in Wilmington, Delaware, Saturday he had been closely monitoring the situation and had called the governors of the states that had been severely impacted by one of the “largest tornado outbreaks in our history.” We are strong, resilient people - and we’re going to be there every step of the way. “Remember, each of these lost lives are children of God, irreplaceable to their families and communities. It’s hard to put into words,” he said in a later statement. This has been one of the toughest nights in Kentucky history. “I want to thank every local emergency management employee, police officer, firefighter and first responder. The National Guard and other Kentucky state personnel are deploying to hard-hit areas for “house-to-house” searches and debris removal, Beshear told CNN. Warren County Coroner Kevin Kirby said that most of the fatalities are from the Russellville Road area.
In Warren County, Kentucky, children are among 12 storm-related fatalities, the county coroner’s office confirmed to CNN Saturday afternoon.
Rescuers eventually pulled her and others out, she said.Īn official Kentucky death toll hasn’t been released deaths have been reported in Arkansas (two), Tennessee (four), Illinois (six) and Missouri (two). “I was screaming like, ‘Sir, can you please just get this so I can move my leg?’ He said, ‘Ma’am, there’s about 5 feet worth of debris on top of you,'” she said. She knew rescuers were around only when she could feel pressure from above - people walking on the debris. Pinned by debris with others, she used her phone to broadcast on Facebook Live, and called 911, her mother and a coworker’s relative. And it was like the building, we all just rocked back and forth, and then boom - everything fell on us,” Kyanna Parsons-Perez told CNN’s Boris Sanchez. While attendance was being taken, she saw “a little dust of wind.” Among the survivors were Kyanna Parsons-Perez, who said workers had been hustled to a safety area before the storm hit.
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