Bertha Mendoza, 56, had just celebrated her birthday a week before she was swept away in Hurricane Helene floodwaters as she and others were trying to get to safety.

While some families confirmed the deaths of their loved ones, others were still waiting for news of the missing, who were ...

“The findings are that employees were told to leave the plant at least 45 minutes before the gigantic force of the flood hit ...

Guillermo Mendoza can still remember the last phone call he received from his mother, Bertha, in the morning hours of Sept.

During the service, family members of the lost Impact Plastic employees honored their loved ones by lighting a candle and ...

In the aftermath of the flooding in Erwin, Tennessee, Manuel Cordero joined a search for victims that found three people who ...

I dug a road into the railroad bank. … I made everybody hit their gas and don’t stop,” said Ron Kell, manager of the Old ...

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is looking into claims denied by Impact Plastics that managers did not let workers go.

ERWIN, Tenn. (WCYB) — The community of Erwin came together on Thursday to pay respect for loved ones they lost. People lit ...

Bertha Mendoza was with her sister when the flooding started, but they got separated, according to a eulogy on her GoFundMe page authored by her daughter-in-law, who declined an interview request.

Bertha Mendoza made a final call to her husband of 38 years as raging Hurricane Helene floodwaters trapped her and others at a Tennessee plastics plant. Workers have said they were allowed to ...

September had been a month of celebrating Bertha Mendoza’s birthday, as well as her son's and grandson's. It's now also the month she died. Mendoza, 56, was one of the employees of Impact ...