LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The state of North Carolina is continuing to make progress following Hurricane Helene’s devastation. About 200 Kentucky residents spent the weekend in Asheville to help with disaster relief.

What You Need To Know

  •  Two hundred Kentucky residents went to Asheville over the weekend to help with disaster relief

  •  The volunteers are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

  •  They helped with a number of tasks like cutting tree limbs with chainsaws and mucking out basements

The volunteers are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Lexington, Kentucky Stake President Drew Millar rounded up 100 volunteers from the congregations he leads to help out in Asheville. They joined 100 other Kentucky residents who are members of other congregations across the state.

“A lot of trees are down, big trees and so a lot of chainsaws and sawing things up and taking them out to the road to be picked up, but then also some flood damage from basements, mucking out basements, ripping up carpets, you know, tearing out drywall,” said Millar.

Asheville residents expressed a lot of gratitude for the help they received over the weekend.

The American Red Cross is still taking donations to go toward communities affected by Hurricane Helene.

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