Randy Johnson with God’s Pit Crew has been in contact with church leaders in Mayfield, Kentucky where volunteers from Danville will be helping remove debris, tarp roofs, and cut down trees. In the interim, the agency has dispatched a truckload of bottled water, toiletries and other necessities to the area hardest hit by the tornadoes, which left dozens of people dead and whole neighborhoods destroyed. A semi truck loaded with chainsaws and equipment is headed to the region Monday morning.

Johnson said the relief effort  will continue not for weeks but for months as God’s Pit Crew helps the area to rebuild.

Hundreds of buildings have been reduced to nothing. Roofs are sheared off those that stand. Some streets are littered with snapped trees, clothes, chunks of insulation and blown-away Christmas decorations. The fire station is inoperable, most police cars destroyed.

At least eight people working at a Mayfield candle factory were killed, and eight more are missing. It’s still unclear how many others in Mayfield died. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear had feared more than 100 dead statewide, but on Sunday afternoon he scaled back that estimate to as low as 50, with many at the candle factory accounted for.