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DUPLIN COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) - An 88-year-old man was killed in a Rose Hill fire Sunday night, April 28, according to the Duplin County Department of Emergenc .
Sometimes, timing really is everything.
Carol Mattocks, the winner of this year’s Community Fabric Award for Individual leadership, learned just how true that warmed-over axiom is in 2018, when she worked as the founding chair of the Filling Station, the nonprofit outreach in Pollocksville that serves the needs of disadvantaged citizens across Jones County.
The Filling Station opened just two weeks before Hurricane Florence roared through the area, flooding much of Pollocksville, Trenton and other areas of the county. As one of the only local relief organizations functioning, it played a key role in feeding and clothing residents in the days immediately following the storm.