which means normal conditions.

It's a big day for rebuilding efforts in Mayfield in western Kentucky, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear help the community break ground on a new city hall and police department.

It comes close to 3 years after a deadly tornado swept through western Kentucky.

Devastating downtown Mayfield.

The project is funded through insurance, FEMA and more than 48 million dollars from the state legislature.

>> Or the top us to people in Kentucky.

We care about each other.

We loved one another.

And even in those moments afterwards, he saw people putting one foot in front of the other to get to this day mean, just think about everything that's been done.

Hundreds of new homes this downtown.

>> Coming back, hundreds of millions of dollars that had to be secured with the funding being the hardest part of it.

And now that peace is done.

Now we see the construction.

Now we see all the progress and we get closer and closer to that day where we can say we completed this mission and now it's time to bring in more business.

It's time to bring in more people.

It's time to not rebuild Mayfield, but growing bigger and better than ever before.

>> In the backdrop of your life disappears or is in rubble on the side of history and no matter what the disaster takes a while to realize our lives will never be the site.

And we now have to think, okay, what used to sit on that corner was used to sit here, but it's what it's the news like the governor said.

We're going to be the newest town in Kentucky.

And we're to the point now where that is extremely exciting for us.

>> This will be the first time may feel police have had their own department building.

They were among the first on the ground in response to the December 2021.

Tornadoes.

>> By the time I got to tell you, every member of the department had self the boy.

>> And that one of the toughest jobs was deciding who had to be sent home first because we KET that we were going to need really shifts and nobody wanted to go home.

The guys and gals of this department, I mean, just unilaterally, they did whatever was necessary.

>> True heroes, indeed.

Mayfield police hope to be in the new state-of-the-art building by late 2026.

The city also broke ground on a new fire