Search and rescue groups, working with first responders and legislation enforcement, are coordinating with a Household Help Heart in Asheville and Buncombe County.

To report your buddy, member of the family, or cherished one as lacking or unaccounted for, you’ll be able to click on this hyperlink to supply data on to emergency crews. The shape and extra data is obtainable right here, supplied by Buncombe County authorities.

Should you make contact with your beloved, it’s best to notify the Household Help Heart by electronic mail: buncombesearch@gmail.com.

The cellphone quantity for data on Household Help Heart providers is: 828-820-2761. Please pay attention and depart a voicemail.

Devastating floods from Hurricane Helene unleashed widespread destruction in Western North Carolina. An unknown variety of persons are unaccounted for in what’s now a confirmed lethal pure catastrophe.

Emergency response workers is stretched skinny however Asheville’s police chief confirmed welfare checks and search and rescue efforts are lively in an effort to present data to family members who stay elsewhere. Cellular phone and web service (in addition to electrical energy and water) are down throughout nearly all of WNC.