ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WJW) — In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene , which caused devastating flooding in Asheville, North Carolina , and the surrounding area of the Blue Ridge Mountains, emergency dispatchers from Bedford-based Chagrin Valley Dispatch were part of a group from Ohio that volunteered to provide relief for dispatchers in the Carolina destruction zone.
“The calls that we’re taking are just unbelievable, it’s horrible what we’re hearing: the stories about people missing, deceased; you know, kids looking for their parents,” Chagrin Valley Dispatch Director Nick DiCicco told FOX 8 News via Zoom from Asheville.
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DiCicco said a member of the Ohio’s Telecommunications Emergency Response Task Force or TERT was recently on the way to a store in Asheville to pick up supplies and saw a distraught man on the side of the road who was desperately trying to find homes for a litter of six puppies that had nothing to eat.