{"id":1114611,"date":"2021-12-13T13:28:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T18:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1114611"},"modified":"2021-12-13T13:28:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T18:28:49","slug":"families-mourn-survivors-share-harrowing-accounts-after-tornado-decimates-kentucky-candle-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/families-mourn-survivors-share-harrowing-accounts-after-tornado-decimates-kentucky-candle-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Families Mourn, Survivors Share Harrowing Accounts After Tornado Decimates Kentucky Candle Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Ffamilies-mourn-survivors-share-harrowing-accounts-after-tornado-decimates-kentucky-candle-factory%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=1114611&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/tornado-damage-kentucky-hugging-getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Families and survivors mourn in the aftermath of the tornado that ripped through a Kentucky candle factory on Friday, where at least eight people were killed and another eight are missing, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Ward and his girlfriend Autumn Kirks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/news\/news\/man-shared-8-kids-girlfriend-killed-kentucky-factory-hit-tornado-rcna8543\">had<\/a> just started working at the factory weeks ago. The pair was saving money to purchase a home \u201cfor their combined eight children,\u201d <em>Today <\/em>reports.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.4379562043796\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Aerial video from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WDRBNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WDRBNews<\/a> drone of town of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Mayfield?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Mayfield<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cWc0qJ4mVs\">pic.twitter.com\/cWc0qJ4mVs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Travis Ragsdale (@TravisRagsdale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TravisRagsdale\/status\/1469661864200216577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When Friday night\u2019s tornado came <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/weather\/2021\/12\/11\/video-kentucky-governor-fears-dozens-dead-after-storm-strikes-candle-factory\/\">roaring<\/a> through Mayfield, the duo was working with more than 100 other employees.<\/p>\n<p>Kirks said she was only ten feet from Ward when the tornado ripped through the factory. She made it out, but Ward did not.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span> \u201cI had a savior,\u201d Kirks told NBC News senior national correspondent Kate Snow on <em>TODAY<\/em>. \u201cI don\u2019t know who it was, but he lifted a concrete wall off me&nbsp;and three of my girls and got us out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thirty-Seven-year-old Mark Saxton was also working at the factory. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/-cant-believe-m-even-candle-factory-employee-says-rcna8528\">showed<\/a> up for his shift thirty minutes early as he always did and began carrying on business as usual once his shift started as a forklift driver, NBC reports.<\/p>\n<p>A third tornado warning gave him the feeling his colleagues and he may be in danger. He opened a door and saw the massive twister.<\/p>\n<p><span> \u201cI started backing up,\u201d he told NBC.&nbsp;<\/span>He started to head to a \u201ctornado-safe\u201d hallway in the building, but the twister moved rapidly.<\/p>\n<p><span> \u201cTiles and concrete started falling,\u201d he said. \u201cEveryone started running, so I just dropped to the ground. I got in a fetal position, and the concrete slab fell on top of me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.6629213483146\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Drone video from Western Ky state Senator Whitney Westerfield, capturing daylight video from damage to the courthouse in downtown <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Mayfield?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Mayfield<\/a>, Kentucky from Friday&#8217;s overnight tornadoes. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l0g6JEiMVA\">pic.twitter.com\/l0g6JEiMVA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mario Anderson (@MarioAndersonTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarioAndersonTV\/status\/1469676730105446400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cI really didn\u2019t think I was going to make it,\u201d he added. \u201cIf you see the people that were beside me\u2026 I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m even here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Mother Denise Cunnigham lost her son Devyn, 21, in the tragedy, <em>TODAY<\/em> reports. She told the outlet that no one should have been working on Friday.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThey knew it was coming,\u201d she told <em>TODAY<\/em>. \u201cI\u2019m more than angry. I think they should be held accountable for everything that\u2019s happened to these families, for my son.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CEO Tony Propes of Mayfield Consumer Products told the show that tornadoes were unpredictable, and an evacuation was not possible as the tragedy&nbsp;<\/span>happened so quickly.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf we believed that we could do anything differently, in hindsight, of course, I think all of us do something differently,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is such a gamble to say leave, because the last thing you do, it says don\u2019t get in your car, that\u2019s what experts say.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bob Ferguson, a spokesman with Mayfield Consumer Products, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/commodities\/devastated-kentucky-tornado-survivors-pick-through-debris-shelter-with-relatives-2021-12-12\/\">said<\/a> there have been eight confirmed deaths, while another eight remain missing, according to Reuters.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Families and survivors mourn in the aftermath of the tornado that ripped through a Kentucky candle factory on Friday, where at least eight people were killed and another eight are &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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-1114611","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\/1114611","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114611\/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=1114611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}