In the wake of last week's devastating tornado, Laurel and Pulaski County residents have been telling their stories about helping neighbors who lost everything.
Josh Hammons lives in London and works at the London/Corbin Airport. It was destroyed in the storm. In an interview with WEKU, he talked about what happened last Friday night in the tornado's aftermath.
“First person I came up on had an injury to their leg, or foot, bleeding profusely; me and some other people helped him back to his front porch, I would say house, but his house was gone, but his front porch, they held some pressure on it. I went to the next person, and the next person...some of them didn't make it.”
Hammons used to serve as a volunteer firefighter in Laurel County. He has not slept much since the storms, saying he would rather be out helping others in his community than resting.
He talked about finding the neighborhood of Sunshine Hills destroyed.
“I ended up being in that neighborhood first, I couldn't get around it, but when I drove by it was fine, and just a few minutes later it was all gone. I drove down, power lines down, I was praying I wouldn't get shocked driving over them trying to get to people.”
He said some of the people he helped in the immediate aftermath of the storm did not make it. He said he was lucky that his family's home was spared.
Hammons said future storm warnings will be different for him as he thinks back on what happened during this most recent disaster.
