Volunteer pilots rescue and download the donations after Helen

Achletel, North Carolina – One year has passed since then Helen destroyed parts of the area In the west of North Carolina and some of the first eyes in the sky reflect the destruction that followed.

Without cell service and Washing roadsHundreds of people who cut off in the mountains.

“He received a call early in the morning from a company’s customer. The customer asked them to verify a family member in North West Carolina.

The mattresses say he got up in the air as quickly as possible. He was one of the first to see what is really going on in the area.

“Watching it is revealed, you know that this water was still rising,” as I told Fox. “I have been personally, literally, directly after the storm.”

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A few tasks were made from their loved ones and realized that the destruction was worse than anyone believed. Once on the ground, the total flying solutions for a helicopter, Tim Grant. Grant put logistics services for dozens of pilots in the coming weeks, as the tasks of rescue operations have turned into donation drops.

Support from United Kajon MarineGrant says they brought almost every helicopter. Everyone donated their time, effort and resources to save people immediately, or to drop the necessities such as medicine.

The mattresses spoke with Fox about the reactions and conversations he had with some of the people who saved him.

“No phones, you know the phone they have, it is until the battery dies. They don’t know. They cannot contact, they do not know anyone coming to them.”

“When (pilots) accomplish their mission, they will boil enough to find a mobile phone tower that was outside, and to make a radio call and say:” Hey, this is where I am, I picked up these people, and they are fine. “

The Grant team of the 25 volunteer pilots rescued the first day and 30 on the second day after Helen. “But we did more than 100 missions, just dropping food and supplies,” he says.

Volunteer pilots were working from Sunup to Sundown. Grant says the pilots will rely on extracting information at the end of the day for about an hour before they were called it night.

One of the stories has emerged to give her more than others: “He (a pilot was rescuing) to capture some people, and he could see the weapons that come out of the mud collapses that passed.”

The ongoing rescue tasks in North Carolina after Hurricane Helen brings “historical” floods, landslides

Also doing missions, but just dropping supplies – South Carolinian, Austin Lane. Hear about a group on Facebook, Carolina AviatorsPutting a group of experimental volunteers to obtain donations closer to the mountains.

Lynn flies a plane with a two -year -old baron motor with a tonnage capacity of 1000 pounds, allowing him to fly just beyond that with a little volunteer aircraft.

“A diaper has been delivered to people with newborns, canned commodities, or food restrictions, and insulin,” says Lyn.

If we look back, Lynn is surprised by the organization of the donation sites on it. It says it took only minutes for volunteers at local airports to load his plane with supplies.

“It was one of the few that could come out more. So we were making 6 to 8 trips a day,” he says.

Grant reflects the comprehensive experience, “the people who donated their supplies, their members, and their aircraft, whatever … this was the best part.”

The roads began to sprain with the help of National Guard in North Carolina And other volunteers. This allowed more volunteers and non -profit organizations to enter further in the most hit areas.

NCng Fox tells that there are 869 Air RescRues, with 165 of them in complex rescue operations. In an email to Fox, “Save the complex crane is when a helicopter crew uses a lifting of people from dangerous or difficult to reach during a disaster or emergency, and the situation is more difficult than normal rescue.”

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In general, NCNG says that South Carolina, Maryland, Oklahoma, Georgia, Florida, Connecticut, Minnesota, Iowa, New York, and Pennsylvania presented aircraft. Army helicopters 21 Chinoooks, 7 UH-60 Blackhawks, 4 UH-72 Lakotas for a total of 32 helicopters.

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NCNG also saved 226 pets, downloaded from 3638 dining platforms and brought 1877 tons of goods by air.