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Employees rushed to one of the bath- rooms for cover, she said. The lights went out. The noise She hid under a water fountain. see anything. Everyone was she said.
fell on us. Roof, metal and rocks. We were all She saw some grisly injuries from debris. She saw two people die. were so many She found a tunnel with two others and crawled outside.
She hurt her head, shoulder and leg and was treated and released from a hospital, she said. Saturday, she spoke wrapped in a blanket on her sofa in a house in shat- tered The family had no elec- tricity, water or natural gas. Even in her injured state, mostly she worried about her co-workers as she tried to wrap her mind around the scope of the disaster. feels like it was a she said. Kentucky Gov.
Andy Beshear said he believes least of workers at the candle factory were killed in a roof collapse when a tornado struck Friday evening. Of the 110 people inside, roughly 40 had survived, been found or rescued. Hopes dwindled that more would be found alive in the factory, which was largely gonna lose a lot of lives at that Beshear said at a news confer- ence in He said it was the site of the largest loss of life and perhaps the larg- est cluster of tornado deaths in Ken- tucky history. Troy Propes, CEO of the Consumer Products candle factory, said in a statement Saturday that the facility was by a tornado, and tragically employees were killed and in- jured. heartbroken about this, and our immediate are to assist those by this terrible disaster.
Our company is family-owned and our employees, some who have worked with us for many years, are cherished. immediately establishing an emergency fund to assist our employees and their families. grateful to the responders who heroically assisted our employees following the storm. And, thank- ful for those who are generously to assist us. Your prayers are needed and according to the statement.
One hundred percent of donations made to the MCP Candles Tornado Vic- Fund will be devoted to relief, ac- cording to the MCP website. Donations can be made at paypal.com/ Yanis said she liked working at the factory, a large employer in the town of roughly 10,000. Residents said it jobs to those with prior convictions or in recovery. gave people second Summer Walker said. Worker Kyana Parsons-Perez told the show that inmates from the Graves County Jail were working at the factory when the building collapsed.
when I tell you some of those prisoners were working their tails to get us out. They used that moment to try to run away or anything. They did not. They were there, (and) they were helping she said. In the neighborhoods near the fac- tory, where trees cleaved roofs and bits of were woven into treetops, many said they knew people who had worked there.
feels like all the town used to work there. My father used to work there, my grandfather used to work said resident Teara who weathered the tornado with her and young child in a home that lost all its windows. Yanis, who is from Guatemala and has lived in the area for 12 years, said she worked the second shift. Before the tor- nado, she did not hear anyone asking to go home. Another surviving employee, Chel- sea Logue, said restarted working there two weeks ago.
Friday night, she said, managers lined up people in a rest- room and a shelter. She said they were in the area about 15 minutes before the tornado hit. There was a big she said. building lifted up, and it before it crashed down, she said. you could hear was the screams of Her head was pro- tected by 5-gallon buckets of chemicals, she said.
was just it was she said. woman that was on top of me, she managed to get herself loose and out from in between the walls. And I just jerked my head out from in between the bucket and the wall and got How she crawled out exactly, she know: the grace of God, I got out of Many hoped, prayed and waited. still resident Mickey Kelly said of a friend who worked at the factory whose fate re- mained unknown. Fire Chief Jeremy Creason, who is also EMS director, said the main station was destroyed, but 11 coun- ties sent ambulances to assist with the rescue-and-recovery at the fac- tory and throughout the county.
First responders were dealing with structure gas leaks and calls for rescue. Creason said they found 30-40 when they arrived at the factory. a lot of res- working carefully and methodi- cally, he said, but they get to some bodies. had to, at times, crawl over casu- alties to get to live victims to get them out and mark those casualties as we work our way through the he said. just a picture of what dealing with down were after tornado struck Candle factory survivors recount narrow escape Chris Kenning Louisville Courier Journal USA TODAY NETWORK People look around the candle factory Saturday in where workers died when a tornado struck overnight Friday.
SCOTT TODAY NETWORK thankful for those who are generously offering to assist us. Your prayers are needed and Troy Propes CEO of the Consumer Products candle factory UNITED NATIONS military must rebuild trust with the opposition, especially the young generation who feel betrayed by its seizure of power in an Oct. 25 coup that sparked the great- est crisis in the political tran- sition, the U.N. special envoy for Sudan said Friday. Volker Perthes told the U.N.
Security Council that building measures and a visible com- mitment to bring the country back on a democratic transition path will be The military takeover upended a fragile planned transition to democratic rule more than two years after a popular uprising forced the removal of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir and his Islam- ist government. Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, who now heads the ruling body, and other mili- tary leaders dissolved the transitional government and arrested dozens of cials and politicians. Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok was reinstated last month amid interna- tional pressure in a deal that calls for an independent technocratic Cabinet un- der military oversight led by him. The agreement included the release of government and politicians detained since the coup.
The Nov. 21 deal, however, was re- jected by the pro-democracy move- ment, which insists power be handed over to a civilian government to lead the transition. Their protests, which saw thousands of Sudanese back on the streets in Khar- toum and other cities Dec. 6, follow the slogan: negotiations, no compro- mise, no with the mili- tary. Perthes said he cautiously welcomed the Nov.
21 agreement though it is from But he said it can help avoid more bloodshed and provide a step toward dialogue and return to con- stitutional order. At least 44 people were killed and hundreds injured in protests triggered by the coup, which Perthes blamed on use of force by security has deepened the crisis and mobilized the so-called which continues to organize regular mass he said. feel betrayed by the coup, and now reject any negotiations or partnership with the UN envoy: military must rebuild trust with opponents Edith M. Lederer ASSOCIATED PRESS.
