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.
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 they were out hunting FEMA.’”
One Forest Service employee, she said, was pulling into a gas station
when someone yelled at him to leave, saying “We don’t want the government here.”
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