Witnesses saw armed group harassing FEMA workers in small Tennessee town, sheriff says

No arrests were made, but Farley said that the people who showed up were looking to cause trouble.

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Signs are seen at a Disaster Recovery Center at A.C. Reynolds High School in Asheville, N.

C., Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024.



Farley said his department was setting up a 24-hour command post in Elk Mills because of what happened. The region is still largely cut off from the rest of the state because Helene damaged and destroyed many bridges and roads. William Parsons, the man accused of making the threats in North Carolina, said he believed social media reports that FEMA was refusing to help people, but that he realized that wasn’t the case when he arrived in hard-hit Lake Lure, a small community about 25 miles southeast of Asheville.

, the 44-year-old Parsons read aloud a social media post he made that said “We the people” were looking for volunteers on Saturday to “overtake the FEMA site in Lake Lure and send the products up the mountains. Capt. Jamie Keever, of the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office, said in an email Wednesday that a soldier called 911 on Saturday after someone overheard Parsons making a comment that “he was going after FEMA and was not afraid of law enforcement or soldiers.

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