Eight months after they rode to his rescue, fire chief Steve Camlin is still singing the praises of a group of fellow firefighters from Illinois who showed up when help was needed most for his North Carolina community.
“Soon as they hit the ground, they started working nonstop,” Camlin recalls. “They just told us to sit back and chill out---they got it!”
Camlin is chief of North Carolina's Acme-Delco-Riegelwood Fire District, which was devastated last September by the intense flooding of Hurricane Florence.
“Florence was probably the worst hurricane we’ve ever been through,” he said. “We were lucky to get an hour’s sleep---most of the time we were too tired to eat…we lived off coffee!”