One of two Ohio Task Force 1 teams deployed to North Carolina to help provide Hurricane Florence relief returned home late Thursday.
The task force’s first Water Rescue Team, “Team Alpha” worked in Kinston, Lenoir County before they were demobilized, said Phil Sinewe, the group’s spokesman.
A member of the task force, Sycamore Township Fire Captain Jeff Newman, will appear live in our studio on FOX19 NOW Morning News at 8:40 a.m. Friday to share the group’s experiences.
“Because of the well-coordinated and robust plan of water rescue resources throughout the State of North Carolina put into place between FEMA and NC EMA, some of the FEMA teams provided only limited service and stood by in a support role for the communities they were assigned. OH-TF1’s Team Alpha was one of those teams that experienced only limited mission assignments,” Sinewe wrote on the task force’s Facebook page.