Mayfield tornado victims receive free cars

MAYFIELD, Ky. (KFVS) - Exactly 1 period aft the deadly tornado touched down successful occidental Kentucky, 3 families person cars again.

“It’s similar a miracle. It truly is. It’s unbelievable that everybody has been truthful generous arsenic acold arsenic getting wealth to bargain the cars and stuff. It’s conscionable unbelievable. All implicit the United States, not conscionable Kentucky,” said Rodney Burgess.

The tornado crushed and destroyed Rodney and Bessie Burgess’s cars, but acknowledgment to generous donors, Bessie Burgess has a car to thrust to enactment successful Clinton, wherever she is simply a caregiver astatine a nursing home.

“At first, I didn’t deliberation it was real,” said Burgess. “It’s overwhelming however bully radical person been. Ever since the tornado radical person conscionable been wonderful.”

While they are feeling grateful today, they are inactive dealing with devastation.

“Our house, our motorhome, our boats, cars, everything is wholly gone. And you can’t adjacent archer that it was there, really. Our full vicinity is gone,” said Burgess.

To assistance Burgess and his neighbors, the Mayfield Community Foundation received capable donations to bargain 10 cars to springiness away. They gave 3 radical cars connected January 10, 2022.

“People from each implicit the state and the satellite person poured successful money, and ironically the biggest gifts were fixed to the instauration anonymously,” said Mel Doughty, Mayfield Community Foundation’s vice president.

Doughty said their generosity volition assistance the metropolis of Mayfield and its residents recover.

“It’s a immense assemblage of radical who person fixed to marque this possible,” helium said.

“There is nary mode we’ll beryllium capable to convey everybody ever, but I anticipation they cognize that our gratitude is there, and we really, truly admit it,” said Bessie Burgess.

“It means the satellite to america to astatine slightest person a mode backmost and distant to enactment and stuff. It’s conscionable unbelievable. Thank you,” said Rodney Burgess.

Mayfield Community Foundation received 72 applications for vehicles. You tin find the link to use for a conveyance on Mayfield Community Foundation’s Facebook page.

The Foundation’s leaders are hoping to rise much wealth to assistance donate cars to much families moving forward. You tin besides find a link to donate connected their Facebook page.

The Foundation purchased the cars from dealers successful Mayfield: Seay Motors, Auto Outlet, and Supreme Auto Sales.

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