GEM bstrong is air dropping food, water, hygiene, medicine and Starlinks to cut off communities in the Western North Carolina mountains. Thanks to @thehorseshoefarm we popped up a flight operations control room and landing pad in Hendersonville. Pilot Joe and Pilot Scott will be in the skies all week making sure our team can respond to SOS calls in real time. So far, we have responded to Black Mountain, Pensacola, Green Mountain, Swananoa, Asheville, Bat Cave, Chimney Rock, and Cattail Creek.
@aerialrecoverygroup is supporting our team with ground reconnaissance in the areas where information in scarce and situations are unknown.
We are especially grateful to Joe Rich, Scott Fowler, Kevin Goad, David and Scott Knoblauch, Brian Leonard, Gary Seymore, and Ross Johnson for providing the aviation equipment without which these operations would have been impossible.
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