Some of the most incredible stories throughout Florence’s time in the Carolinas have been the rescues.
But when your job is to volunteer to save lives, you don’t always consider you could also become a victim.
Even less, having such a close encounter with death while your own parents witness it. A washed-out road in Seagrove nearly cost an off-duty volunteer firefighter his life and his brother-in-law's.
On their way back to a milkshake-run in Asheboro, Chase Reed and Kevin McKelvey drove on Clyde King Road to get to their destination.
But their return wouldn’t run as smoothly.
Chase’s mom, Angie Reed, was visiting the Seagrove Fire Department to check in on her son and his colleagues when a NCDOT worker came by alerting them that Clyde King Road was flooded.