Kentucky's governor says it could take weeks to find all the victims of flash flooding that killed dozens of people when torrential rains swamped towns across the Appalachian region.
Kentucky's governor says it could take weeks to find all the victims of flash flooding that killed at least 25 people when torrential rains swamped towns across the Appalachian region.Rescue crews have made more than 1,200 rescues from helicopters and boats“We continue to pray for the families that have suffered an unfathomable loss," Governor Andy Beshear said.
Rescue crews continue the struggle to get into hard-hit areas, some of them among the poorest places in America.Mr Beshear, who flew over parts of the flood-stricken region on Friday, described it as "just total devastation, the likes of which we have never seen". "Many of these people cannot recover out here. They have homes that are half underwater, they've lost everything," she said.
Mr Caudill, a firefighter in the Garrett community, went out on rescues around 1am on Thursday but had to ask to leave about 3am so he could go home, where waters were rapidly rising."Here I am sitting there watching my house become immersed in water and you got people begging for help. And I couldn't help," because he was tending to his own family.
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