On the recordOctober 1, 2003
As a matter of fact, in Franklin County we lost a volunteer firemen who was killed as a result of being out that night, hit by a tree. My notes indicate, as of today, a note I just received from Secretary Beatty, the governor's person who is in charge of Emergency Management, Crime Patrol and Public Safety, that in North Carolina the volunteer groups and Red Cross and Salvation Army, the North Carolina Baptist Men, and I am sure a lot of these that you talked about in churches, probably are not in this number that had prepared meals. They had prepared 623,168 meals to people in eastern North Carolina. That gives you some idea what the devastation was. For many of these folks, not only are they living in shelters; FEMA has had to move in portable trailers because their homes are uninhabitable as they try to work through it.
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