As southern California continues to suffer from wildfires, officials in another part of the country fear their area could be next – thanks to tons of dry wood left over from Hurricane Helene’s wind and flooding.
“The number one fire threat in western North Carolina seems to be all the trees on the ground,” said Joe Stewart, vice president of government affairs for the Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina. “There’s a lot of concern about it.”
Four months after Helene crushed much of western North Carolina and east Tennessee with unprecedented flooding and left