Officials estimate four tornadoes hit Kentucky Friday night, the most devastating being in Mayfield, a town of around 10,000 residents tucked in the southwestern corner of the state. The downtown area was obliterated by the storm and one business, a candle factory filled with workers completing Christmas orders, was leveled. As of Sunday morning, many are still missing. Troy Propes, the CEO of Mayfield Consumer Products appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America Sunday broadcast. Please watch above.
Hopes of finding any more survivors of in the rubble of a candle factory that was flattened by a tornado are dwindling, Kentucky' Gov. Andy Beshear says. Forty of the 110 people who were in the building in Mayfield were rescued by Saturday. https://t.co/ysgXXeCNcr
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 12, 2021