Erwin, Tennessee is a small town in Unicoi County that sits along the banks of the Nolichucky River. The city is about 120 miles away from Knoxville, 250 miles from Lexington, Kentucky and 50 ...

Unicoi County Hospital in Erwin, Tennessee, was destroyed by a flash flood during Hurricane Helene in late September. During the worst of the flooding, murky, brown rapids surrounded the hospital ...

Two days before the flood in Erwin, a satellite office of the National Weather Service in Morristown, Tennessee, predicted “life-threatening flash flooding” near the Tennessee-North Carolina ...

ERWIN, Tenn. — As this Appalachian town grapples with the loss of its hospital, which was destroyed by floodwaters during Hurricane Helene, a KFF Health News analysis has identified about 20 ...

Erwin, Tennessee — April Boyd texted her husband before she boarded the helicopter. "So, I don't want to be dramatic," she wrote on Sept. 27, "but we are gonna fly and rescue patients from the ...

The Nolichucky River, which flows north through Erwin, Tennessee, was transformed into a deadly flash flood on Sept. 27, 2024, when rainfall from higher mountain altitudes drained into the river.

Hospital staffers and emergency responders tried to evacuate patients first by ambulance and then by boat when the Nolichucky River in Erwin, Tennessee, overwhelmed Unicoi County Hospital during ...

More than 50 people have been rescued after being stranded on the roof of a Tennessee hospital Friday – some of them for hours – due to rising floodwaters from Hurricane Helene.

The factory sits on South Industrial Drive in Erwin and overlooks James H. Quillen Parkway/Interstate 26, which is closed after floodwaters wiped out the roadway. Who is the owner of Impact Plastics?

Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated the time when employees of Impact Plastics in Erwin, Tennessee, were allowed to leave. The correct time is 10:50 a.m., one hour ...

ERWIN, Tenn. — State authorities are investigating what happened at an Erwin plastics factory during Friday's catastrophic flooding. Employees on the job that day said the company lied about the ...