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RAW: NC: LARGE TREE DAMAGES APT BUILDING, CAR
A fallen tree damaged an apartment building and a car in Asheville, North Carolina on Thursday. COPYRIGHT 2024 BY APPLE VALLEY NEWS NOW. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.
Tropical Storm Helene evacuees head to Harrah's Cherokee downtown Asheville for shelter
ASHEVILLE - Rebecca Casey, 80, of Swannanoa, made it to the emergency shelter at Harrah’s Cherokee Center just after 8:30 a.m. Sept. 27 with help from a friendly stranger. Casey, who lives on the campus of Warren Wilson College, evacuated to the Quality Inn on Tunnel Road Sept. 26. She told the Citizen...
Hurricane Helene: Biden approves federal emergency declaration for NC
President Joe Biden approved a federal emergency declaration for North Carolina Sept. 26 in response to emergency conditions resulting from Hurricane Helene. The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced in a Sept. 26 news release that federal disaster assistance is available to the state to supplement response efforts. Helene is predicted to hit Western North Carolina as...
Across Asheville, anxious residents brace for impending arrival of Hurricane Helene
It's the calm before the storm but people in Biltmore Village are bracing for the worst."Well, you know, I'm kind of in a place of like shock and awe and also how do you protect," said David Ross, a Biltmore Village resident. "So, like I'm in that place of like trying to do the best you can."When Ross saw the forecast -- with the river expected to crest -- he quickly got to work boarding up an Indian restaurant housed in his building and protecting what they could from inside by putting it in trucks.Across western North Carolina, people anxiously...
Buncombe’s lawsuit against HCA highlights struggle of patients in rural WNC hospitals
An “unnecessary” medical process is doubling costs for some rural hospital patients and adding to emergency room overcrowding at Asheville’s Mission Hospital, according to a lawsuit moved to federal court this month. Buncombe County government leaders initially filed the lawsuit against health care giant HCA – Mission’s...
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