Firefighter Finds Stray Dog After Hurricane Helene, Then Adopts Her

A Pit Bull mix found wandering around North Carolina after Hurricane Helene has found a home with her rescuer. Wake County Firefighter Korey Floyd went to help in western North Carolina when he saw a black and white dog on the loose while he was helping clean up storm debris after Hurricane Helene and doing welfare checks.

No one in the area recognized her. “None of them knew who she belonged to,” Floyd told ABC News. “We took her to the local shelter. They checked her for a chip, there was no chip and no collar, no tags. So, we were kind of in the blind with her.”

So, Floyd took her back to the fire department and then decided to take her home.

“Everybody was joking “Are you going to take her home with you?” Floyd said. “When we’re getting toward the end of it, we’re like, yeah, we’re probably going to take her with us because we didn’t want her to go to a pound.”

Floyd named her Lulu and has gotten a warm welcome home from Korey’s 3-year-old Beagle mix and his flock of chickens, geese and turkeys. Lulu is a happy-go-lucky dog and Flyod takes her optimism to heart.

“I think she’s more of a sign of hope,” Floyd said. “There’s good things that can come out of it. (Western NC) will recover and they’re doing efforts now. Most of the time we were there, it was good thoughts, it was not a negative time for us. All we did was just good things, helping the community out, trying to do what we could.”