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Helene forced a North Carolina restaurant owner to leave his home. He just lost his ‘Cabin of Hope’ in recent wildfires

Matthew Rogers' Cabin of Hope, a lakeside property in Flat Rock, North Carolina that has been in his family for around 40 years, smoldered to the ground in recent wildfires after Rogers and his wife safely evacuated last Sunday.
The wildfires, which have burned over 6,500 acres, were fueled by fallen trees and wood scattered across the ground after Hurricane Helene slammed North Carolina in September 2024, damaging a bridge and temporarily blocking access to Rogers' neighborhood.
Before the wildfires, Rogers and his wife had lived in the basement of his Hendersonville restaurant, Three Chopt Sandwich Shoppe, for two months after Helene's flooding, and had only recently been able to return to their cabin after the bridge was repaired.
Rogers said, "that's our dock, and that's our home, our home is gone," after seeing aerial footage of his burning home, losing decades-old antiques, pictures, and scrapbooks passed down from his parents and grandparents, though the dock survived the fires and the belongings are insured.
Despite the loss, Rogers, who also runs a day camp called Camp Hopewood, maintains a positive outlook instilled by his parents, stating, "It's not a tragedy, no one was hurt," and intends to rebuild the Cabin of Hope, which is named after a quote from the 1994 film 'The Shawshank Redemption'.

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