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 Hurricane Helene floodwaters swept her away in Erwin, ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The deaths of Bertha Mendoza, 56, and Monica Hernandez, 45, were made public by the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, which said it has been in touch with their families.

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.