The federally funded, four-day training event put participants through the paces of a hypothetical scenario. After setting the stage with a mass public emergency, teams dove into tabletop simulations to role play how they would respond.
Labor Day weekend is gearing up to be a wet one, according to a meteorologist, with rainfall escalating over the next several days and into next week.
It has been a year to the date since Haywood County experienced flooding that caused the mountain community of more than 60,000 people to never be the same.