Dr. Nicholas Kman has been deployed six times to provide aid in the aftermath of a hurricane. Of those six, Hurricane Helene is the biggest in his 15 years on Ohio Task Force 1.
The emergency medicine physician with the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center left last week for Florida with over 80 members of the Dayton-based Ohio Task Force 1, a Federal Emergency Management Agency Urban Search and Rescue Task Force, ahead of the hurricane’s landfall.
“The scope of this storm, and in terms of the number of the amount of geography that it covers, is pretty historic,” Kman told The Dispatch from the task force’s base of operations amid the destruction…