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Dispatcher, in fact, just about 1015 minutes ago, and we are seeing issues in the weaverville area right now. A tree is down upper flat creek road near calloway road and the salem church road area near the mars hill highway. So issues reported there. So far, no accidents reported in the asheville area here. But, again, you you want to take it slow on your morning commute. Standing water is an issue on many of these, especially floodprone areas. We are seeing the wind picking up here a little bit in asheville, but we are seeing Even Stronger winds leading to some Power Outages in cherokee and m...

The formation of the Smoky Mountain Regional Incident Management Team will streamline responses to local emergencies, such as floods and wildfires

Greg Shuping (center) briefs media outlets during the July 2019 search for Kevin Lynch in National Park lands near The Swag. Lynch was ultimately found safe after a five-day search. Donated photo Greg Shuping was 19 years old when he launched his emergency services career in his native Burke County. The son of a volunteer firefighter, Shuping had spent most of his life hanging around the firehouse, at least when he wasn’t busy exploring nearby Linville Gorge.  As a teenager, Shuping struggled to settle on a clear direction for his post-high school life, but his dad, a state employee, ha...

In mid-March, County Emergency Management Director Greg Shuping assembled the “war room,” something that happens when a disaster of some sort is headed this way. Instead of the typical teams leading the discussion — those trained in dealing with threats such as fires, weather events or chemical spills, Shuping immediately turned his focus to Patrick Johnson, the county public health director. The disaster headed toward the county was not typical of those faced in recent decades. It was a global pandemic that would require a far different skill set than had been needed before. L...

Kyle James, field team lead for Haywood Search and Rescue, carefully crosses a tributary of the West Fork Pigeon River. Nancy East photo It was the fall of 2019, and Bill Zimmerman had just hopped in a truck with other members of the Haywood County Wilderness Search and Rescue Team in response to one of the 21 deployments the crew handled that year.  “Somebody goes, ‘We don’t even have a gas card. We don’t even have money to put into the truck to get up to the mountain,’” Zimmerman recalled.  It was a crystallizing moment for Zimmerman, who had for some time been toying with...