On his first rescue mission as a helicopter pilot bringing supplies and transporting people out of the destruction left by Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina, Gary Heavin was sent to rescue a woman and her two children. Upon arrival, he discovered they had already drowned; their bodies had just been discovered.
In response to Heavin’s question about their age, a local fire department official said he didn’t know, but in the mother’s automobile were two children’s car seats.
“That was just the first day,” Heavin told The Epoch Times.
Heavin and his wife, from Gatesville, Texas, joined in Operation Airdrop’s Hurricane Helene rescue mission based at the Hickory Regional Airport in Hickory, North Carolina….