{"id":1111728,"date":"2021-12-12T13:59:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T18:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1111728"},"modified":"2021-12-12T13:59:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T18:59:18","slug":"exclusive-footage-kentucky-tornado-survivor-says-first-thing-we-thought-of-was-helping-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-footage-kentucky-tornado-survivor-says-first-thing-we-thought-of-was-helping-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive Footage: Kentucky Tornado Survivor Says \u2018First Thing We Thought\u2019 Of Was \u2018Helping People\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-footage-kentucky-tornado-survivor-says-first-thing-we-thought-of-was-helping-people%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1111728&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In an exclusive interview with The Daily Wire, a resident of Mayfield, Kentucky, recounted his horrific experience with the tornado that swept through more than 200 miles in the state of Kentucky and killed dozens while destroying untold amounts of acres of property. The man possibly saved his neighbor\u2019s life by waking him up as the twister was just two blocks away.<\/p>\n<p>He also added that he was \u201cpraying the whole time\u201d the tornado was upon him, saying that once it was over his first thought was to help other people.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-residents-on-kentucky-tornado-damage-footage-ive-never-seen-destruction-like-this-in-my-life\">noted<\/a> earlier on Sunday, The Daily Wire interviewed residents from Mayfield, Kentucky, on Saturday to hear their first-hand experience with one of the many tornadoes to wreak havoc across the interior United States.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Governor Andy Beshear (D-KY) told media that \u201cMultiple tornadoes have touched down and we have damage in \u2014 I believe&nbsp; \u2014 over a dozen Kentucky counties. The primary tornado was on the ground continuously for over 200 miles in our state, something we have never seen before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have deaths in multiple \u2014 possibly many counties,\u201d the governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-massive-tornadoes-rip-through-kentucky-overnight-killing-at-least-50-state-of-emergency-declared\">added<\/a>. \u201cThe hardest-hit county appears to be Graves, where the city of Mayfield has been devastated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a series of interviews, videographers from The Daily Wire delivered on the ground footage just hours after the tornado had wreaked havoc on Mayfield.<\/p>\n<p>In one interview, a man told The Daily Wire that he was first alerted by a nearby tornado siren and that immediately \u201cstarted getting mattresses out\u201d and that he was moving them toward a centrally located closet to hunker down in because he figured it was&nbsp; \u201cbetter safe than sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then, I went out on the front porch because I\u2019ve personally never seen a tornado, and next thing you know it got real calm,\u201d he told The Daily Wire. \u201cThen I heard something like a freight train.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen all the power went out,\u201d he continued, adding that \u201cthe tornado looked blue from the electricity\u201d and \u201cit was probably about two streets\u201d away at this point.<\/p>\n<p>Standing on his porch, the man realized that his neighbor was not awake as the tornado was about to strike his house.<\/p>\n<p>He said he \u201cimmediately\u201d ran into his neighbor\u2019s house, where the man was laying in bed and woke him up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you know, I bust his door down, tell him to \u2018Get up! Tornado\u2019s coming!\u2019 He jumps in the shower, and we run over here. We get up in the closet and pull mattresses over us. The whole house starts shaking, you hear things breaking,\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just praying the whole time,\u201d he said. \u201cIt happened so fast and then it was calm. Everybody got out, made sure everybody was okay, and the first thing you know that we thought of was getting out and helping people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man\u2019s willingness to help his neighbor is similar to the acts of charity that one resident named Kyana Parsons-Perez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-residents-on-kentucky-tornado-damage-footage-ive-never-seen-destruction-like-this-in-my-life\">told<\/a> the media she witnessed.<\/p>\n<p>Parsons-Perez is an employee at a Mayfield Candle factory that was destroyed by the massive tornado. She was trapped under five feet of debris \u201cfor at least two hours until rescuers managed to free her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parsons-Perez told media that while she was trapped, all she heard were \u201cscreams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then, she \u201cexplained that some local prisoners worked at the factor as part of a work-release program with the prison and that they were \u2018working their tails off\u2019 to help rescue their coworkers,\u201d reports the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey could have used that moment to try to run away or anything, but they did not. They were there, helping us,\u201d she said<\/p>\n<p>The Mayfield resident interviewed by The Daily Wire can be seen here:<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mayfield, Kentucky has been completely devastated by a massive tornado.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x_gdRfES3-o?start=35&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an exclusive interview with The Daily Wire, a resident of Mayfield, Kentucky, recounted his horrific experience with the tornado that swept through more than 200 miles in the state of Kentucky and killed dozens while destroying untold amounts of acres of property. The man possibly saved his neighbor\u2019s life by waking him up as the twister was just two blocks away.He also added that he was \u201cpraying the whole time\u201d the tornado was upon him, saying that once it was over his first thought was to help other people.As noted earlier on Sunday, The Daily Wire interviewed residents from Mayfield, Kentucky, on Saturday to hear their first-hand experience with one of the many tornadoes to wreak havoc across the interior United States.On Saturday, Governor Andy Beshear (D-KY) told media that \u201cMultiple tornadoes have touched down and we have damage in \u2014 I believe\u00a0 \u2014 over a dozen Kentucky counties. The primary tornado was on the ground continuously for over 200 miles in our state, something we have never seen before.\u201d\u201cWe have deaths in multiple \u2014 possibly many counties,\u201d the governor added. \u201cThe hardest-hit county appears to be Graves, where the city of Mayfield has been devastated.\u201dIn a series of interviews, videographers from The Daily Wire delivered on the ground footage just hours after the tornado had wreaked havoc on Mayfield.In one interview, a man told The Daily Wire that he was first alerted by a nearby tornado siren and that immediately \u201cstarted getting mattresses out\u201d and that he was moving them toward a centrally located closet to hunker down in because he figured it was\u00a0 \u201cbetter safe than sorry.\u201d\u201cAnd then, I went out on the front porch because I\u2019ve personally never seen a tornado, and next thing you know it got real calm,\u201d he told The Daily Wire. \u201cThen I heard something like a freight train.\u201d\u201cThen all the power went out,\u201d he continued, adding that \u201cthe tornado looked blue from the electricity\u201d and \u201cit was probably about two streets\u201d away at this point.Standing on his porch, the man realized that his neighbor was not awake as the tornado was about to strike his house.He said he \u201cimmediately\u201d ran into his neighbor\u2019s house, where the man was laying in bed and woke him up.\u201cSo you know, I bust his door down, tell him to \u2018Get up! Tornado\u2019s coming!\u2019 He jumps in the shower, and we run over here. We get up in the closet and pull mattresses over us. The whole house starts shaking, you hear things breaking,\u201d he recalled.\u201cI was just praying the whole time,\u201d he said. \u201cIt happened so fast and then it was calm. Everybody got out, made sure everybody was okay, and the first thing you know that we thought of was getting out and helping people.\u201dThe man\u2019s willingness to help his neighbor is similar to the acts of charity that one resident named Kyana Parsons-Perez told the media she witnessed.Parsons-Perez is an employee at a Mayfield Candle factory that was destroyed by the massive tornado. She was trapped under five feet of debris \u201cfor at least two hours until rescuers managed to free her.\u201dParsons-Perez told media that while she was trapped, all she heard were \u201cscreams.\u201dThen, she \u201cexplained that some local prisoners worked at the factor as part of a work-release program with the prison and that they were \u2018working their tails off\u2019 to help rescue their coworkers,\u201d reports the Associated Press.\u201cThey could have used that moment to try to run away or anything, but they did not. They were there, helping us,\u201d she saidThe Mayfield resident interviewed by The Daily Wire can be seen here:[embedded content]The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1111728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}