AFTERMATH: Video taken while driving through Dawson Springs, Kentucky shows a path of destruction left in the wake of a devastating tornado. Multiple tornadoes were reported across six states as strong storms impacted parts if the midwest and south.
Survivors who were pulled from the rubble at the Kentucky candle factory share their story.As rescue workers combed miles of splintered houses and commercial buildings for survivors and the dead in Kentucky and seven other states devastated by aSunday services were held in the parking lot of a Kentucky church that stood no more. A man who was buried alive with co-workers in a collapsed candle factory spoke of how he defied death.
According to the Associated Press, 36 people have been confirmed dead across five states, 22 of them in Kentucky alone, including 11 in Bowling Green. In addition, six people were killed in Illinois, where a tornado slammed into an Amazon facility; four people were killed in Tennessee; two deaths were reported in Missouri; and two more deaths were reported in Arkansas, where a nursing home was destroyed.
In Mayfield, Kentucky, a worker in a candle factory that was flattened by a twister as he and more than 100 co-workers were inside, told ABC News it was unfathomable he made it out alive. Dakota said he and a coworker used a fire hydrant to prop up the water fountain they never thought they'd have to use as a life-saving shelter until they had no other choice. He said that they stayed put under the fountain for two hours, listening to the swirling winds and screams of colleagues from other areas of the torn-apart factory.
"We've got a lot of heavy equipment, a lot of personnel. We're dealing with tons of steel and metal that's twisted and mangled … chemicals, and there's just a lot going on on that scene," Creason said on Sunday.
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