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As officials deploy helicopters and high-water response vehicles to aid North Carolina communities devastated by Hurricane Helene, mules are being used to reach otherwise inaccessible areas.
FEMA photo of a home destroyed by Hurricane Dennis as it passed over Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Due to the common occurrence of hurricanes in the coastal state of North Carolina, hurricane recovery in North Carolina is a large component of the state's emergency management efforts. Recovery from these tremendous storms at the local and state ...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has resumed neighborhood outreaches in some parts of areas afflicted by Hurricane Helene, and one man has been arrested and accused of making a threat.
ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (WNCN) — North Carolina Emergency Management officially activated the state’s emergency response teams ahead of Hurricane Helene. The city of Rocky Mount has two teams.
The North Carolina Department of Public Safety (NCDPS) is an umbrella agency that carries out many of the state's law enforcement, emergency response and homeland security functions. The department was created in 1977 as the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety.
North Carolina has 20 coastal counties [7] [8] that are part of the Coastal Area Management Act (CAMA), of which Hyde County, Dare County and Currituck County include the barrier islands. The economic and social demographics of these counties factor heavily into the mitigation and recovery plans, as these statistics allow a better understanding ...
The Nov. 12 briefing also covered an several hiring events, the Hazard Mitigation Program, debris truck locations today and more.
The National Weather Service issued its first tornado warnings — for northern Chatham County and central Orange County — at 10:38 a.m. Friday, spawning a frenzy of weather updates.