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When Hurricane Florence hit North Carolina last September, Capt. Mike Stream and the Maryland Helicopter Aquatic Rescue Team (MD-HART) were dispatched to Wilmington. The damage of the hurricane was vast. When Stream and his team were onboard an airship, a levee in the area broke. The team was able to rescue nine people and a […]

A number of public safety officers were honored at this year’s 45 Annual Public Safety Awards Luncheon at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & County Conference Center in North Bethesda. The event was emceed by NBC4’s Leon Harris and Doug Kammerer. The event is organized by the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce. Make sure to […]

Golfers were able to tee off and complete 18-holes of golf at the Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce (GGCC) 28th Annual Business Golf Classic despite the forecast of “Hurricane Florence” in the midst. Over 75 players, teed off at Worthington Manor Golf Club, 8329 Fingerboard Road, Urbana, Maryland on Friday, September 14. “Planning a golf outing […]

Maryland Task Force 1 Urban Search Rescue Team, deployed on Sept. 11 to flood-ravaged North and South Carolina, returned home Tuesday night. The team comprises 80 members, including those with heavy concrete structure collapse, wide-area search and swift-water rescue capabilities, according to a news release. The Federal Emergency Management Agency trains and manages MD-TF1, which […]

MCM’s field producer Carolyn Raskauskas spoke with FOX5 chief meteorologist and Montgomery County resident Sue Palka Wednesday, Sept. 12 as Hurricane Florence headed for the Atlantic coast. State and county officials kept an eye on what Hurricane Florence might mean Maryland and Montgomery County. As Palka explains, its a tricky business predicting hurricanes and typically […]

Sue Palka, chief meteorologist for FOX5 and Montgomery County resident, tells MyMCMedia what the county should expect from Hurricane Florence.

Team members from Maryland Task Force 1 Urban Search Rescue Team arrived in Columbia, South Carolina to help with Hurricane Florence relief efforts. The team is comprised of 80 members, including those with heavy concrete structure collapse, wide-area search, and swift-water rescue capabilities, according to a news release “I am very proud that Montgomery County […]

Hurricane Florence won’t be much of a hurricane when it grazes Montgomery County later this week. Maryland is expected to get scattered showers through the weekend from the storm, National Weather Service meteorologist Jeremy Geiger said Wednesday. Given the shift that #HurricaneFlorence has made to South, the risks to MD and Montgomery County are diminished. […]

Montgomery County is already soaked after months of rain. What will happen when Hurricane Florence hits the U.S. coastline. Chokepoints on the Potomac already have plenty of debris. Will trees become uprooted, sending them crashing down the river? Or will the heavy rains flush out the trunks and branches?  

The National Hurricane Center said Tuesday afternoon that Hurricane Florence, packing 130 mph winds, was getting more organized and increasing in size. The earliest reasonable time that tropical-storm-force winds could arrive in the United States from #Florence is late Wednesday, and the most likely time is Thursday morning. Wednesday should be the last full day […]