The inmate was one of roughly 100 people inside the candle factory as an EF-4 tornado collapsed the building on top of them.
GRAVES COUNTY, Ky. - A Kentucky inmate is being hailed as a hero for helping people buried under the debris of the candle factory in Mayfield after the Dec. 10 tornado.that Marco Sanchez was on a work detail at the Mayfield factory when the tornado hit. The sheriff called Sanchez a hero, saying he undoubtedly saved lives that night., being inside the candle factory as an EF-4 tornado collapsed the building on top of roughly 100 people.
“When it happened and I came back, there was no one around me. I was trapped in the rubble,” he said.“I was sitting on top of the building thinking, ‘What do I do?’ I was by myself. No one was around. It was dark. No responses. No people were around,” he said.“I thought maybe I had died and I was working my way up to heaven,” Sanchez said.“There was a girl there trapped, and she was crying, ‘Help me. I’m trapped.’ She didn’t know I was there.
Sanchez has been overwhelmed by the comments on the now-viral Facebook post. He’s gotten to read them and says they have inspired him to believe in himself. Sanchez is from Arizona. He says he left his family 15 years ago and hasn’t seen them since. When the Facebook post went viral, his sister saw it and was able to reconnect. They had a reunion via Zoom Thursday.
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