Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) is on website in western North Carolina serving to present provides and evacuation help to the communities devastated by Hurricane Helene.
Mills on Monday centered on dropping in with a helicopter to supply provides like meals, water, and diapers to these impacted by the storms.
“Today we were able to drop between three, four thousand pounds of supplies into Asheville, North Carolina,” Mills stated in a video posted to the social platform X.
On Tuesday, Mills stated he deliberate to do welfare checks, drop extra provides, or present transportation to a close-by hospital or medical facility if crucial.
“What we’re going to be looking at are areas that are harder to get to,” Mills stated in a video shared with The Hill, saying that one of many areas they have been concentrating on Tuesday has aged individuals, whereas one other had an 8-year-old. One space being focused is Burnsville, N.C.
The primary-term congressman stated he was working with the charity Mercury One, a nonprofit that was based by conservative commentator Glenn Beck.
Mills, an Military veteran and a protection contractor, is not any stranger to personally leaping into disaster conditions.
He helped evacuate People from Israel final 12 months following the Hamas-led Oct. 7 assaults. And when he was a congressional candidate in 2021, he assisted with evacuating refugees from Afghanistan after the U.S. withdrawal of troops from the nation.
The dying toll from Helene has topped 130, and hundreds caught within the storm’s path throughout a number of states remained with out energy as of Tuesday morning. Roads within the western a part of North Carolina have been washed away or blocked, leaving some communities inaccessible by car.
The White Home stated as many as 600 individuals have been unaccounted for as of Monday afternoon.
