Over 22 inches of rain fell across the Lake Lure Dam watershed, leading to catastrophic damage to the town and surrounding ...

Lake Lure's Assistant Fire Chief Chris Melton says that situations like this should never be taken lightly, as carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless gas and it can be fatal without warning.

"We arrived on scene, probably had about a full acre involved give or take," Lake Lure Fire Rescue Assistant Chief Chris Melton said. "It's extremely rugged terrain on there." Melton said around ...

And in the middle of the whole conversation and them blocking the road off, I was greeted by the — at that time I didn’t know — but the Lake Lure fire chief, or assistant chief, maybe.