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Chris Chiles, disaster response coordinator for Virginia-based God's Pit Crew, works a chainsaw on a fallen tree outside a home in the aftermath of a tornado in Mayfield, Ky., Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021. The damage and devastation in Mayfield is so severe that it could take years before the community returns to normal, said Chiles. Virginia-based God's Pit Crew, of Danville, has been aiding storm-ravaged communities for more than two decades. (AP Photo/Sean Murphy)
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More than 1,300 state workers and Kentucky National Guard members are mobilized to help.
Eighty-one people died when the tornadoes moved through western Kentucky late December 10 and continued into the morning hours of December 11.