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Interview no. | K-0605 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | K.2.13. Southern Communities: Listening for a Change: Voices after the Deluge, the Great North Carolina Flood |
Project description | Interviews, 1999-2003, with flood victims, rescue workers, relief workers, ministers, farmers, farm workers, small-business owners, environmental monitors, and political leaders in eastern North Carolina about the devastating flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Floyd in 1999. Topics include the toll of the flood on human lives; disruptions to community and sense of place; political response to the disaster at local, state, and national levels; public health and environmental issues; the effect of the disaster on the region's most vulnerable residents; and the experiences of relief workers. Some interviewees offer parallels between the hurricane and other tragedies, particularly 9/11. |
Date | 19 June 2002 |
Interviewee | Burress, Steve. |
Interviewee occupation | Fire fighters |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Unidentified |
Interviewer | Barnes, Jay. |
Abstract | Lifelong Pinetops (N.C.) resident, chief of Rescue Squad and Fire Department in Pinetops. Gives detailed account of rescue efforts in Dodge City; notes that local department not prepared nor expecting this much flooding, went in expecting to rescue three families and ended up taking out 300 people; emphasis on the difficulty of maintaining a command center but ways in which improvisation worked; stresses race difficulties overcome in the face of common hardship, good neighbor efforts; several drowning deaths, including one man and his family apparently helping rescue; sincere involvement of rescue personnel with their jobs; changes to Dodge City at present time. |
Subject Topical |
Fire fighters--North Carolina. Hurricane Floyd, 1999. Floods--North Carolina. Hurricanes--North Carolina. Disaster relief--North Carolina. Disaster relief--North Carolina. Dodge City (N.C.)--Social life and customs. |
Citation | Interview with Steve Burress by Jay Barnes, 19 June 2002 K-0605, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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