A team of firefighters from the Triangle is credited with rescuing two elderly brothers during Hurricane Isaias.
The heroes are part of the North Carolina Search and Rescue Task Force 8. The team is comprised of firefighters from Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, as well as members from Wake EMS.
“We’re the task force that goes in and assists municipalities that have been affected,” said Capt. Kevin Ellsworth, a member of the Raleigh Fire Department and task force leader of Task Force 8.
Ellsworth and the team were dispatched after an EF-3 tornado barreled through a mobile home park near Windsor in Bertie County.
“I got the call at 3 a.m.” he said. “As we got there, the storm was still in the area; high winds, heavy rain, visibility was low.”
Ellsworth said they had two options when they got to the mobile home park.