The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency reports that friends and family are still looking for ten individuals who went missing in Unicoi County. Every day that goes by throughout the search is a terrible fear for one husband.
“She said goodbye to me, and to take care of the kids,” said Francisco Javier Guerrero, married to Rosa Maria Andrade Reynoso. “We feel destroyed because of what’s happening, specifically because we don’t have answers if she is one of the people that were located.”
Reynoso, he said, is still gone. Guerrero stated that they hadn’t heard from her in around four days. She works at the Impact Plastic factory in Erwin, where the firm said on Monday that a number of its employees had either gone missing or had died.
About the time the facility lost electricity, it was stated that workers were let go when water began to flood the factory parking area and a nearby service road. The majority of the staff, according to the firm, departed right after, but “some remained on or near the premises for unknown reasons.” The business added that it was “devastated by the tragic loss of great employees.”
“She sent me a message around 10 a.m. that the lights went off,” he said.
He went to the Unicoi High School with other community members in the hopes of getting information from first responders.
According to Jimmy Erwin of the county emergency management office, it identified one body and delivered three. Along with facilitating a shelter at the school, the organisation is providing necessities, support, and a place to stay for members of the community like Guerrero.
“We are proud to be that source, for people who are struggling,” said one worker at the emergency centre. “We have certainly been knocked down, but we’re picking ourselves up and dusting ourselves down.”
