Inspectors Led Rescue and Damage Survey After Hurricane
Henderson County building inspectors organized evacuations for about 150 residents and delivered them to shelters. They logged over 600 welfare checks, ran supply runs, and escorted teams to remote areas while learning FEMA’s four tier damage system. They later aided damage assessment across 300 destroyed structures and 1,400 with major damage, aligning with FEMA totals.
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Crystal Lyda
Henderson County
Lyda
Asheville Highway
North Henderson High School
FEMA
Samaritan
Karen Verm
Craig
Tiffany Hill
Fatalities rise from Helene events in Henderson County
Death certificates list Lentz of Bat Cave at 80 Chimney View Road and Elizabeth House in Flat Rock. Other Helene fatalities include Thomas Freeman, Elizabeth Mayes, and Robert Griffin’s comments on the Edney Inn Road landslide, with Cordell and Dunbar among those named from DHHS records.
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Lentz
Chimney View Road
Bat Cave
Elizabeth
Florida
North Carolina
Patricia
Allen
Mike
Keith
Thomas Mitchell Freeman
Helene
Freeman
Bald Mountain
Shumont Road
Steve Freeman
Mitch Freeman
Elizabeth Rose Mayes
Edney Inn Road
Mayes
Robert Griffin
Edneyville
Henderson County
William Carl Cordell
Cordell
Elizabeth House
DHHS
Buncombe County
Christopher Sylvester Haywood Dunbar
Dunbar
Pardee
Mills River
Vicki Lynn Allen
Hendersonville Mobile Home Estates
Chadwick Road
Spartanburg
Granite Bridge Court
Angela “Angie” Ruth Maybin Walker
Balfour Road
Hendersonville
Hendersonville area hurricane deaths total 12
NC health officials confirm twelve fatalities from Hurricane Helene in Henderson County. Names span Hendersonville and Bat Cave with causes including landslides drowning and complications from flood injuries. Victims range from 51 to 96, with deaths occurring between Sept and Jan in homes, hospitals, and hospice facilities.
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Henderson County
N.C
William Carl Cordell
Elizabeth House
Christopher John Iserai
Trail Creek Road
Hendersonville
Marjorie Lucille Lentz
Bat Cave
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New Jersey
Phyllis Ann Matheson
Michael Gene Matheson
James Sieminski
Bearwallow Road
George Wesley Drye
Chimney Rock Road
Pardee Hospital
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