Former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle dropped several helicopter supplies in remote areas in the path of Hurricane Helen, giving much-needed relief to those stranded after waving mirrors in the North Carolina mountains. They also delivered medicines for the victims.
Biffle, a Washington state native currently based in the Charlotte area, volunteers in his helicopter. Operation Airdrop The effort is to help victims of flash floods that have devastated parts of the western part of the state.
In one video posted to social media Thursday, the former NASCAR Busch Series champion explains how he was able to help someone after seeing someone flash his mirrors from “more than a mile away.” showed.
This was “the only way we were able to find a person stranded in the mountains at the bottom of a steep canyon,” Biffle said. After six attempts to land, he said, he was able to drop off a “chainsaw, EpiPen, insulin, chicken feed, baby formula, gasoline, two-stroke oil, and a sandwich I made in a Harris Teeter before I left.”
In announcing the location of Person X, Biffle said, “If your family was near this pin, they would have flashed a mirror at the sun to get my attention, they is fine, and we unloaded supplies.”
The helicopter pilot is one of “dozens” of civilians volunteering their time and fuel to enter “hard landing zones” to drop off supplies, WRAL says. reported.
“I saw a guy. I caught him out of the corner of my eye. He was miles away,” he told the magazine. “I told my partner that we wouldn't be able to find anyone here or find a place to land. I saw him flashing a mirror. Mirrors are good signaling devices. is.”
Biffle added that he plans to “keep going until everyone feels like they've got what they need.”
Commercial helicopter pilots are delivering aid to Appalachian communities affected by Helen, but the Biden-Harris administration's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has come under fire for lacking an adequate response.
A few days after the federal government announced Vice President Kamala Harris announces $8 billion more in aid to Ukraine $750 FEMA paid tribute to the victims of Hurricane Helen, Breitbart News reported.
Harris visited Georgia on Wednesday (two days after former President Donald Trump) and made the controversial announcement.
“Some people have lost everything…I don't have any expectations.” [them] They give us a few thousand dollars, but they can do so much more than that,” a frustrated Asheville, North Carolina, resident said in a Fox News interview about his meager emergency fund. he said.
FEMA's aid amount is $750, which is only $50 more than the victim's aid amount. 2023 Maui Fire received — due to the negative attention the agency received.fact check” and said victims may receive “other forms of assistance” if they are “eligible”.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said: claimed FEMA does not have the funds to get through the remainder of the hurricane season, even though the department has $640 million earmarked for issues related to illegal immigration.
“We're meeting immediate needs with the resources we have, and we're expecting another hurricane. We don't have the money – FEMA doesn't have the money – to get us through the season.” said reporters on Wednesday.
on friday letter Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) told Mayorkas that a whistleblower says federal, state and local emergency responders are sitting idle in North Carolina waiting for orders from FEMA. He said he had informed his office.
“My office has reported and further confirmed that hundreds, if not thousands, of military personnel have been sent to North Carolina by the Department of Defense and are waiting for FEMA without doing anything.” the Florida congressman wrote.
“We have confirmed that FEMA personnel are waiting in hotels 24 hours a day for orders. Pre-disaster assistance by FEMA has been withheld, further exacerbating the emergency situation,” he added.
