While search and rescue teams are saving lives during the disaster from Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina, some rescue teams are also working feverishly to save dogs and cats.
Fifty to 90 rescued pets from Mitchell and Yancey counties in North Carolina are expected to arrive Tuesday night at shelters in Northern Virginia.
“We are told that most of the roads in those towns are completely washed out. There is no running water, there is no cell (or) internet service. And so, the teams on the ground down there have been working with emergency services and the shelter staff to try to get these animals loaded up and headed our way,” said Sue Bell, founder and executive director of Homeward Trails, a nonprofit animal rescue that operates a shelter in Fairfax Station, Virginia, and a second shelter in Delaplane, Virginia…