“I fear that there are more than 50 dead, probably closer to somewhere between 70 and 100, it’s devastating,” Beshear said, adding that it was the “most severe tornado event in Kentucky’s history.” In one incident, the roof of a candle factory collapsed, resulting in “mass casualties” in the city of Mayfield, the governor added. “Mayfield in Graves County will be ground zero,” Kentucky emergency management director Michael Dossett told CNN Saturday morning. “The city took the hardest hit. There is massive devastation in that city.” he said.
The Governor declared a state of emergency before midnight and said scores of search and rescue officials had been deployed to save lives as power outages continued to hit the area. On the same night a storm ripped through a massive Amazon warehouse in the state of Illinois where around 100 workers were trapped inside, local media reported. Hundreds of officials were working through the early hours of Saturday to rescue employees at the Amazon warehouse, a third of which was reduced to rubble, who were on the night shift processing orders ahead of the Christmas holidays. The Collinsville Emergency Management Agency described it as a “mass casualty incident” with “multiple subjects trapped at the Amazon Warehouse.” A tornado warning had been in effect in the area at the time. Footage shared across US news channels and social media of the Amazon warehouse in the city of Edwardsville showed a large part of the facility’s roof ripped off, while one of the walls had collapsed into the building, with rubble strewn across the site.
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