Mayfield Mayor Kathy Stewart O'Nan said the fire station and city hall were destroyed. So were some historic downtown churches, she said.
"I don't think there's a pane of glass at any vehicle or property that the city owns that’s not shattered," she said.
Firefighters in the town had to rip the doors off the fire station to get vehicles out, Fire Chief Jeremy Creason said on “CBS Mornings.”
“Words cannot describe the bravery, the selflessness that they’ve exhibited,” he said of his employees. “We had to try and navigate through all the debris up and down our streets. We were responding with ambulances with three and four flat tires.”
The tornado’s path extended for about 223 miles, four more than the record of 219 set by the so-called tri-state tornado on March 18, 1925, which ripped through parts of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.
Amazon said it was providing $1 million toward tornado relief in the area. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos tweeted that he was "heartbroken over the loss of our teammates there, and our thoughts and prayers are with their families and loved ones."
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