As a tornado ripped through a candle factory in western Kentucky, a woman can be heard in a video reassuring her co-workers that they would be able to escape the rubble of the collapsed building.
“Calm down, calm down. We gonna be OK,” Kyanna Parsons-Perez said after the roof of the factory fell when tornadoes hit late Friday.
WATCH: Kyanna Parsons-Perez was one of many people inside a candle factory in Mayfield when it collapsed.
"It was absolutely the most terrifying thing I've ever experienced in my life," she said. "I did not think I was gonna make it at all."
Parsons-Perez, who turned 40 on Saturday, can be heard in the video, which was shared to social media, urging co-workers who were trapped in the darkened building to remain calm, NBC News reported.
“My birthday is in couple (of) hours,” Parsons-Perez, who turned 40 on Saturday, can be heard telling colleagues in Mayfield, one of the cities hardest hit by the storm. “Y’all gotta sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to me.”
Several coworkers begin singing the tune, NBC News reported.
Parsons-Perez said she and her co-workers were moved to a shelter area when the twister hit the building. She began shooting a video on Facebook before the tornado hit.
“We felt the wind. My ears started popping, and then it was like the building, like we all just rocked back and forth, and then boom, everything fell on us,” Parsons-Perez told CNN. “It was the most terrifying thing that I have ever experienced in my life.
Parsons-Perez said that while she was taking cover, her ears began “popping.”
“Like, you know when you’re on the plane?” Parsons-Perez told NBC News. “And then before you know it, it was like the building rocked and collapsed and we fell down.”
Parson-Perez, who was pinned to the ground by a water fountain and air-conditioning unit, said a first responder told her she was covered with 5 feet of debris, CNN reported.
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Kentucky tornadoes A resident surveys the damage from a tornado that hit downtown Mayfield, Kentucky, on Friday night. (Mark Humphrey/Associated Press )
Kentucky tornadoes Emergency response workers dig through the rubble of the Mayfield Consumer Products candle factory in Mayfield, Kentucky. (Timothy D. Easley/Associated Press )
Kentucky tornadoes A woman walks away from a row of ambulances on the property of Mayfield Consumer Products Candle Factory after it was destroyed by a tornado. (John Amis/AFP via Getty Images)
Kentucky tornadoes A feed store in Mayfield, Kentucky was severely damaged by a tornado Friday night. (Timothy D. Easley/Associated Press)
Kentucky tornadoes: artin Bolton, left, and shop owner Danny Wagner try to shut off a leaking gas meter after his automobile repair shop was destroyed by a tornado in Mayfield, Kentucky. (John Amis/Agence France Presse/AFP via Getty Images)
Kentucky tornadoes (Dylan T. Lovan/Associated Press)
Kentucky tornadoes: Debris is scattered near a damaged feed store in Mayfield, Kentucky. (Timothy D. Easley/Associated Press)
Kentucky tornadoes A car sits under a house destroyed by a tornado in Campbellsville, Kentucky. (Michael Clubb/Associated Press )
Kentucky tornadoes Workers survey damage done by a tornado that traveled through Campbellsville, Kentucky. (Michael Clubb/Associated Press )
Kentucky tornadoes Several homes were reduced to rubble after a tornado hit Mayfield, Kentucky. (Mark Humphrey/Associated Press )
Kentucky tornadoes Workers survey the rubble at a Family Dollar store in Mayfield, Kentucky, after Friday night's tornado. (Mark Humphrey/Associated Press )
Kentucky tornadoes A resident surveys the damages after a tornado struck Bowling Green, Kentucky, on Friday. (Gunnar Word/AFP via Getty Images)
Kentucky tornadoes Rescue workers dig through the rubble at the Mayfield Consumer Products candle factory in Mayfield, Kentucky. (Timothy D. Easley/Associated Press )
Kentucky tornadoes A woman in Bowling Green, Kentucky, looks at the damage in the aftermath of a tornado that roared through the western part of the state Friday night. (Gunnar Word/AFP via Getty Images)
Kentucky tornadoes Residents in Bowling Green, Kentucky, assess the damage after Friday night's tornado. (Gunnar Word/AFP via Getty Images)
Kentucky tornadoes Cars and homes were damaged in Mayfield, Kentucky, on Friday night. (Mark Humphrey/Associated Press )
Kentucky tornadoes: People walk past the debris of a home flattened by Friday's tornado in Mayfield, Kentucky. (Mark Humphrey/Associated Press )
Kentucky tornadoes: People carry out boxes from a destroyed building after Friday's tornado in Mayfield, Kentucky. (Mark Humphrey/Associated Press )
