Planning Questions Emerge At Tornado-Destroyed Candle Plant

Workers said they had been told to huddle in a central hallway area, the strongest part of the building, as the storm approached.

The Mayfield Consumer Products factory was the third-biggest employer in this corner of western Kentucky, an important economic engine that churned out candles that lined the shelves of malls around the U.S.

But why its workers kept making candles Friday night as a tornado bore down on the region remains unclear as rescuers continue scouring the factory wreckage for signs of life.

Kentucky's governor said Sunday the ferocity of the storm was so great that there was nowhere safe to hide inside the plant.