Alicia Stemper, a public information officer for Avery County Emergency Operations Center, said high-priority donations include laundry detergent, heaters and mold removal products.
With overnight temperatures in North Carolina beginning to drop, an official with Avery County told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that the urgent needs of those still recovering from the deadly Hurricane Helene are changing with the seasons.
Alicia Stemper, public information officer for Avery County Emergency Operations Center, told Fox News Digital via phone that even though electricity has been restored to some residents in the area, they still don’t have access to heat because HVAC units and other methods of heating were damaged or destroyed by the storm’s floodwaters.
„We have a desperate need for camp heaters or buddy heaters“, Stemper said, adding that gas, battery and electric-powered heaters would work best.
But Stemper said there was one surprising item among the county’s highest priorities: laundry detergent.
