Helene floodwaters trapped Tennessee plastics plant employees, and some are among the missing and dead
Family members say some of their loved ones didn't get word that they could leave, but the plant, Impact Plastics, denies it threatened to fire anyone who left.
Tennessee factory employees clung to semitruck before Helene floodwaters swept them away
The harrowing incident happened at the same time as the Unicoi County Hospital helicopter rescue, just a mile south.
Oklahoma rescue team saves four trapped in Hurricane Helene floodwaters
The team was headed to North Carolina on Thursday to help with Hurricane Helene response efforts when law enforcement and bystanders near Erwin, Tennessee, flagged them down to let them know an elderly man was clinging to a porch as flood waters surged around him, said John Chenoweth, a spokesperson for the Oklahoma City Fire Department on Monday.
Father survives but mother still missing after home swept away in Helene floodwaters
A mother is missing after a neighbor recorded the moment her house was swept away during Helene flooding. Her husband said they were clinging to each other when they hit a tree.
Factory employees clung desperately to a truck before Helene floodwaters swept them away
A group of factory workers tried in vain to escape the raging Nolichucky River in Erwin, Tennessee, even as a dramatic rescue unfolded nearby.
11 workers at a Tennessee factory were swept away in Hurricane Helene flooding. Only 5 were rescued
Workers inside a plastics factory in Tennessee say they narrowly escaped after flooding from Hurricane Helene As the rain from Hurricane Helene came down harder and harder, workers inside a plastics factory in rural Tennessee kept working.
Tennessee plastics factory employee recounts narrow escape through floodwater
Impact Plastics employee Zinna Adkins stepped outside her workplace at 10:54 a.m. on Friday and captured water rising in the parking lot on her cellphone. But at that time, she said no supervisor informed employees they were free to leave.
Helene floods trapped people at work. Some vanished escaping their jobs, TN company says
Among the dozens of people who vanished during Hurricane Helene was a truck-load of employees trying to escape their workplace and the company is giving insights into how fast things went bad in East Tennessee.
As floodwaters engulfed a Tennessee hospital, panic set in for those stranded
Angel Mitchell was in knots Friday morning at the eastern Tennessee hospital where her 83-year-old mother had been admitted ...
Heartbreaking final photo shows NC grandparents trapped on roof before they were swept away by floodwaters along with grandson
A heartbreaking final photo of North Carolina grandparents waiting to be rescued on their roof while surrounded by fierce ...
Dad, 75, Clung to Tree for Hours Before Being Swept Away by Helene Floodwaters in Front of His Family
A 75-year-old North Carolina man was swept away by Hurricane Helene floodwaters after clinging to a tree for hours as ...
My car was submerged in floodwaters. Should I start it?
Storm surges and flooding from Hurricane Helene have caused widespread devastation across parts of the Southeastern U.S., in ...
'It was like white water rapids': Student recounts car escape from Helene floodwaters
Appalachian State University student Avery Paner recounts being trapped in her car with her roommates and escaping from ...
Image of Donald Trump walking through floodwaters after Hurricane Helene is AI
VERIFY analyzed the image and found a number of visual cues that it was generated with AI.
North Carolina man jumps into fast-moving floodwaters to save a trapped woman
A North Carolina man made a “calculated risk,” jumping into fast-moving, Helene-swollen waters to save a woman because he ...
Western North Carolina woman moves forward after watching parts of her life float away in Helene's floodwaters
Residents in western North Carolina continue to pick up the pieces after Helene raged through the state. Standing on the ...