ROANOKE ISLAND, N.C.—With Hurricane Erin moving farther away from his state’s shores, North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein announced that all major response assets gathered and staged on the Outer Banks, including hundreds of National Guard members and rescue teams from other communities, would be demobilized.
“They were not needed, and they … will be going home to be with their families this weekend,” he said during a press conference at the Dare County Emergency Operations Center on Aug. 22. “So I want to thank all of our state’s hard-working public servants, all of the local officials and local first responders who have done everything they can to prepare for this storm. And let’s just count our blessings that this was not the one.”…