LINVILLE, N.C. — Health care companies and nonprofit organizations have erected fully equipped field hospitals in North Carolina, in a pre-emptive attempt to treat residents injured by Hurricane Helene. The women's inpatient tent at the Samaritan's Purse field hospital in Linville, North Carolina. More than half of the 215 people killed by Hurricane Helene as of Friday died in North Carolina, where extreme flooding destroyed homes, washed out roads and bridges, and left survivors to mourn their loved ones. Atrium Health's Med-1 field hospital in Tryon, North Carolina, is less busy than expected after people injured in Hurricane Helene failed to materialize. Atrium Health's Med-1 field hospital.

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