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Hurricane recovery officials in N.C. relocated amid report of ‘armed militia,’ email shows

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Fed hurricane relief workers in North Carolina, have to bail as two vehicles with militia were threatening them, later returned. Sounds like something out of Somalia or some other third world country.

LAKE LURE, N.C. — Federal emergency response personnel on Saturday had employees operating in hard-hit Rutherford County, N.C., stop working and move to a different area because of concerns over “armed militia” threatening government workers in the region, according to an email sent to federal agencies helping with response in the state.


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Around 1 p.m. Saturday, an official with the U.S. Forest Service, which is supporting recovery efforts after Hurricane Helene along with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, sent an urgent message to numerous federal agencies warning that “FEMA has advised all federal responders Rutherford County, NC, to stand down and evacuate the county immediately. The message stated that National Guard troops 'had come across x2 trucks of armed militia saying there were out hunting FEMA.’”
“The IMTs [incident management teams] have been notified and are coordinating the evacuation of all assigned personnel in that county,” the email added.

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Two federal officials confirmed the authenticity of the email, though it was unclear whether the quoted threat was seen as credible. The National Guard referred questions to FEMA when asked about the incident. One Forest Service official coordinating the Helene recovery said responders moved to a “safe area” and at least some work in that area — which included clearing trees off dozens of damaged and blocked roads to help search-and-rescue crews, as well as groups delivering supplies — was paused.
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By Sunday afternoon, personnel were back in place, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The setback is one of the latest examples of growing concerns about safety and security in western North Carolina, where many towns were almost wiped off the map after the historic hurricane made landfall two weeks ago. In the weeks since, misinformation and rumors have made the recovery more difficult, targeting multiple federal agencies operating as part of the recovery. Federal officials such as the secretary for the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA’s director of public affairs have been the target of antisemitic attacks.
 
100% chance they are far right militias.
 
Targeting the workers for doing their job is like blaming the Private for starting the war. For a supposedly world class country we’ve got to have the largest population of imbeciles and idiots per square inch.
 
Fed hurricane relief workers in North Carolina, have to bail as two vehicles with militia were threatening them, later returned. Sounds like something out of Somalia or some other third world country.

I live in that area. We need all the help we can get. We volunteer and work alongside FEMA, National Guard, and US Army. The government response has been terrific. It is true that there are angry armed men around that hate the government, the same government that's trying to save their communities.
 
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