As soon as Debbie Self got the phone calls about a plane crash near Stooges Bar & Grill , the bar she’s owned for over 40 years, she left a cousin's birthday dinner at Texas Roadhouse and drove toward the billowing dark clouds in the sky. From about three miles away, she noticed the stench of smoke before she got a good look up.

“I thought, ‘Oh my god, this is bad,’” Self, 76, told the Courier Journal.

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