One of the cities official tornado recovery command post is here, where we are now at the London Corbin Airport, which suffered severe damage itself as our McKenzie Spink explains, this is just one of the areas you'll find members of the police department helping with recovery efforts.

We had officers, coming on staff to, to help with, whatever was needed.

We, we had officers that was out searching in the debris, searching for people, just really rendering aid.

We had we had officers that, transported injured people, we, render them first aid, best we could.

And we we were really just all hands on deck so we can, respond to help our community.

Jonathan McClure is a Kentucky business owner who arrived on Saturday to help with search and recovery efforts.

His team has been running supplies from other areas of the state and recovering lost items and returning them to storm victims.

It honestly started with just trying to help people find, belongings, whether it be a wallet, whether it be a backpack with medicine in it, the cell phone, stuff like that.

Pets was a big thing to start.

And honestly, just trying to help them locate stuff that they'll need whenever they're going to a hotel or, I mean, trying to rebuild their life to rebuild the community.

So now, a few days out from the tornado, the work being done is shifting from recovery efforts to cleanup.

We're starting to the city is starting to train the opposition into the cleanup phase.

Right now, we're getting this command post set up over in this area where we have a place where people can bring and dump their debris.

We'll take it.

Will the city or sort it out, and then we'll get rid of it.

We're all about our, supporting everybody that that might need help.

The families that are displaced or might need, food, water, any things that we have, people that are out roaming to make sure that that we are, keeping an eye out for looters at the city command posts and at churches and businesses across town.

People are collecting and distributing donations for the tornado victims.

McClure shares what items are most in need right now?

The thing we keep hearing, which is shocking, is totes.

I mean, whenever you go out to these communities, they're trying to gather up what is salvageable and the easiest way to put it all in one place is in a tow.

That's been the thing that I think was the most shocking to us, obviously water, clothes, things of that nature, toiletry items.

Baby supplies and dog and cat food have been the other big thing that we've heard a lot of people ask for.

So we're not going to disappear.

We're not going to be blocked.

Yeah, I've heard people say, you know, in other communities things like this has happened.

The government's not been there.

My office is committed.

I'm going to be out here every day until the end of this thing.

Mayor Whittle says he can't encourage people to enter private property to start cleaning debris.

But if you see a neighbor in need, don't hesitate to ask if you can help.

Picking up the small debris is already underway at the airport, and the public is free to come help out that way as well.

For Kentucky Edition, I'm Mackenzie speak.