MEDIC, Gaston Co. EMS send crews to North Carolina coast

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — People in nursing homes and hospitals are sometimes the most vulnerable when a powerful storm hits.

The state asked Gaston County EMS and MEDIC to work together to help get those people to safety ahead of Hurricane Florence.

The team left Charlotte Tuesday afternoon and plan to meet up with other first responders in Elizabethtown.

They will be assigned to transport people from hospitals or nursing homes in eastern North Carolina that are expected to be impacted by Hurricane Florence.

They will work together to load more than a dozen patients into MEDIC's bus and transport them to a safe location in the Carolinas.

MEDIC says the bus is a useful tool ahead of the storm, but it is also necessarily in an emergency evacuation.

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