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Pilots fly NC nursing home residents with dementia to safety as medicine runs low

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More than 100 nursing home residents — most with dementia — were hoisted onto helicopters and flown across 80 miles of North Carolina’s damaged interior on Tuesday .

They’d been stuck in Burnsville since Friday , when Helene hit the southeastern United States with a wrath that hasn’t been seen in some areas for more than a century .

Volunteer pilots made about 20 trips in their own helicopters — from two -seaters to Black Hawks — flying northwest from Hickory .

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