EDNEYVILLE, N.C. — Since Helene hit, Channel 9′s Hannah Goetz has been dedicated to telling stories from western North Carolina.
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The coverage of search and rescue missions after the storm provided an in-depth look at the devastation as Goetz hiked with crews through mountain communities.
The Edneyville Fire Department in Henderson County was a base camp for a crew she followed.
They took the Channel 9 crew through some of the most rugged terrain hoping to find survivors but as they saw, that often was not the case.
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Goetz spoke with Chief Tracy Winecoff from Kannapolis overseeing that crew.
He said the things you see on missions like this are difficult for a person to comprehend seeing the best in humanity during one of the deadliest disasters in the state.
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