The review will include "independent engineering and expert evaluation," City Manager Erik Walsh said in an email to the ...

Ballad Health donated four new cardiac monitor/defibrillators to Unicoi County EMS on Friday to replace critical equipment ...

Floodwaters from Helene devastated the Unicoi County Hospital, causing the lose of a lot of equipment. The building you’re ...

Recommended Videos This image taken from video from the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency shows a helicopter on the roof of Unicoi County Hospital in Erwin, Tenn., where patients and staff had ...

27, 2024, to assist in nearby Carter County as Helene caused flooding and wind damage in the region, but they were redirected to the hospital in Erwin as floodwaters surged, threatening lives at ...

Those conditions made it impossible for would-be rescuers to retrieve patients and staff from the Erwin hospital via boats. By 12:30 p.m., 54 people were stranded on the roof and patients who were ...

The hospital was destroyed, but no one died. No one was even physically injured by the ordeal. Flood waters from the Nolichucky River rage near Jackson Love Highway and Interstate 26 in Erwin ...

about 45 minutes northwest of Erwin, said some residents were quietly critical of the new hospital’s location. “We all thought that it was a stupid idea to build a hospital in a flood plain.

ERWIN, Tenn. — April Boyd texted her husband before she boarded the helicopter. “So, I don’t want to be dramatic,” she wrote on Sept. 27, “but we are gonna fly and rescue patients from ...

The hospital, on Erwin Road, was still diverting ambulances ... In an update Saturday, hospital officials called the flooding an “unprecedented event.” Gordon Smith, chief paramedic for ...

Little more than a mile downstream, six people at a plastics plant in Erwin’s industrial park died in the flood. ExploreRural hospital in South Georgia battered by Helene, but still supporting ...