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The last time Elías Ibarra Mendoza heard his wife’s voice, she was pleading for his help.
“‘Tell my kids that I love them very much and I won’t be able to answer your calls anymore because the phone will get wet,’” Ibarra Mendoza told CNN affiliate Univision of Bertha Mendoza’s last words to him.
He never heard from his wife of 38 years again.
The 56-year-old grandmother was one of 11 Tennessee plastics plant workers swept away by Hurricane Helene’s deadly floodwaters after they tried to leave the facility. Only five were rescued. Four people who worked at the Impact Plastics plant in Erwin are still missing, and two have been confirmed dead, including Mendoza, the Associated Press reported.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/04/us/impact-plastics-tennessee-workers-helene/index.html
“‘Tell my kids that I love them very much and I won’t be able to answer your calls anymore because the phone will get wet,’” Ibarra Mendoza told CNN affiliate Univision of Bertha Mendoza’s last words to him.
He never heard from his wife of 38 years again.
The 56-year-old grandmother was one of 11 Tennessee plastics plant workers swept away by Hurricane Helene’s deadly floodwaters after they tried to leave the facility. Only five were rescued. Four people who worked at the Impact Plastics plant in Erwin are still missing, and two have been confirmed dead, including Mendoza, the Associated Press reported.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/04/us/impact-plastics-tennessee-workers-helene/index.html
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