Rescue Mission: Local couple launch community-led air base
Volume
31
/ Issue 11
Cover Design Credit:
Caleb JohnsonCover Photography Credit:
Caleb Johnson
Since Tropical Storm Helene devastated the region, Taylor Knipp and her fiancé, Adam Smith, have transformed the Harley-Davidson of Asheville dealership in Swannanaoa into the Savage Freedoms Relief Operation — an ad hoc private air base running daily rescue, reconnaissance and resupply missions to some of the hardest-hit areas in Western North Carolina.
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