Two Combat Engineers from the 151st Engineer Battalion, based in Laurinburg, rescued a nurse who had been stranded clinging to a tree for hours during severe flooding from Hurricane Matthew in the pre-dawn hours outside of Wilson on Oct. 9, 2016.
The nurse did not return home from work and was reported missing, when the North Carolina Emergency Management Central Branch was called to send out a search and rescue team. Capt. Bert Henderson from the Wilson Fire Department and 2nd Lt. Wyatt Koch and Spc. Robert Shook with the NC National Guard where part of a multi-agency rescue team that began to look for the missing nurse early Sunday morning.
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