A team of firefighters from the Corbin Fire Department answered the call for help from neighboring counties over the weekend.
A crew of Corbin firefighters were deployed to Jackson and Clay County over the weekend to help with severe weather cleanup after the recent winter weather our area received.
On Saturday, a team of five firefighters traveled to Jackson County for an all-day cleanup event at the request of Kentucky Emergency Management. Then, on Sunday and Monday, the team traveled to Clay County to help with cleanup.
Tyler Tye, a Corbin firefighter who helped in the weekend’s cleanup efforts, said he and the other Corbin firefighters were more than happy to help, especially after seeing the destruction the recent winter weather had left in those counties.
“When we went to Jackson on Saturday and it was completely different than what it was here,” Tye said. “There was still six or seven inches of snow on the ground that hadn’t been touched on the roads, ice.”