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Asheville Area Habitat continues to help repair and rebuild homes after Hurricane Helene, restoring their own flooded facilities while serving Buncombe and Madison counties.
The N.C. Marine Patrol’s Swift Water Rescue Team was deployed to Watauga County during Hurricane Helene to save lives. Read reflections from three of these brave first responders.
The City of Hendersonville Public Works team worked quickly to reopen its Oklawaha Greenway following Hurricane Helene. The multi-modal path was reopened on Friday, October 4, only one week after the storm hit.
Haywood County’s Ferguson Farm is one of many across the region working to rebuild in difficult conditions. The work before them felt like an insurmountable task until friends and neighbors began arriving to ask how they could help.
The Division of Parks and Recreation manages more than 264,000 acres of iconic landscape within North Carolina’s state parks, state recreation areas and state natural areas. Burke County's South Mountains State Park is one of the latest to reopen following Hurricane Helene.
Fallen timber is of heightened concern in areas around Mitchell County where outsized amounts of natural debris are putting communities at risk from wildfires. Learn about local prevention efforts and find wildfire updates from the NC Forest Service.
More than 2,000 NCDOT employees from across the state have been involved in the recovery response, including central support staff and the recovery operations employees who are responsible for operating dump trucks, backhoes and graders to clear roads.
Yancey County’s Burnsville Rebuild Center is one of six recovery sites operated by Baptists on Mission. More than 13,000 volunteers have joined the organization's western North Carolina rebuilding efforts.