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

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

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.

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

"We are going to prove to our region, to our state and to our nation, how strong a people we are," Erwin, Tennessee, Mayor ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the employees who died, Bertha Mendoza, 56, fell off the truck and vanished into the flood, according to Ingram and a representative from Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition.

Their friends and colleagues remained missing. One of the victims, Bertha Mendoza, 56, fell off the truck and was separated from her sister while they tried to stay afloat; her body was recovered ...