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MAYFIELD, Ky. — The Mayfield high school distribution center continues to be a place to go essentials for families affected by the deadly tornadoes that swept through Kentucky, killing 78 people according to Gov. Andy Beshear.

A pair of best friends who attend the loftier schoolhouse as freshman have been volunteering at the distribution middle since it opened Dominicus, Dec. 12.

What You Need To Know

Mayfield High Schoolhouse serves as a distribution eye for tornado survivors

Olivia Smith and Asia Hoover are best friends that nourish Mayfield Loftier School

They've volunteered since the heart opened to help out the community

Mayfield High School has all the essentials under 1 roof. Information technology'due south i of many distribution centers around the boondocks filled with food, clothes, toiletries, blankets and generators. Mayfield High Schoolhouse is open Monday through Saturday from viii a.grand. - four:30 p.chiliad.

Volunteers work from dusk until dawn making sure the customs of Mayfield is rubber, warm and their bellies are full.

Asia Hoover and her all-time friend Olivia Smith are practically joined at the hip and you wouldn't see one without the other, which is why the two MHS freshmen take volunteering together very seriously.

Asia Hoover unpacks sandwich crackers at Mayfield High Schoolhouse distribution center. (Spectrum News 1/Diamond Palmer)

"Information technology can be sad and heartbreaking to know that so many families have lost their homes and don't have anywhere to go. Simply and so it'due south also happy and relieving to know that you've helped so many families," Hoover said.

The all-time friends are making sure their community in Mayfield gets what they demand including food, water, clothes and much more.

The Mayfield Loftier Schoolhouse distribution center advises families go a three solar day supply of needs and come dorsum for more when they run out. Families can get a hot meal each time they come to get their 3 day supply of necessities.

Hoover and Smith were in Nashville, Tennessee on the night of the storms celebrating Smith'southward birthday. Being hours away from abode, they both started receiving a lot of calls and texts from their friends proverb "I love you", fearing the worst would happen.

The two came back the next day and saw the devastation with their own two eyes. The town the two were born and raised in was nearly decimated, as the EF-4 tornado claimed 21 lives in Graves County.

"A lot of the homes that got destroyed, you lot can tell you tin tell that some of them won't exist able to beget to pay for annihilation else," said Smith.

Thankfully, both Smith and Hoover's homes did non accept any damage. Ane family at a time, comfort is being brought, and worries are wearing abroad. Each item that is donated goes through a conscientious marking procedure.

"At that place's no barcode on it! So we have to go around every time someone sends stuff in, nosotros go around and nosotros mark off the barcodes so people tin't render the items," said Hoover.

Hoover, Smith will continue to volunteer at the Mayfield high school distribution eye all wintertime break and lend a hand where needed. Families in demand of essentials can go to MHS, which is located at 700 Douthitt Street in Mayfield.