(CNN) — The power had just gone off and the ground was shaking at Grade A Auto Parts when the owner received a panicked video call from his chief financial officer.

On his screen, CEO Sean Garber watched a “huge fireball” engulf the Louisville, Kentucky, auto-part and recycling facility he has owned for decades as his colleague described a blast followed by “a continuation of explosions.”

“It looked like really hell’s fury around her,” Garber recalled, describing seeing his employees screaming and running from the flames.

A UPS cargo plane had just slammed into the facility shortly after taking off from a nearby airport Tuesday, leaving at least 12 people dead and multiple families with missing loved ones, Kentucky officials said. Three of Garber’s employees are among those still u

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