Officials detailed that the troops airlifted the residents to Big Sandy Regional Airport in Debord, Kentucky. The residents, according to officials, boarded UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters from the ...

The other flood that gets brought up a lot is the Eastern Kentucky flood of 1957. The headwaters of the Big Sandy, Kentucky, and Cumberland Rivers were especially hard-hit There were food ...

The troops, including Airmen from the Kentucky Air Guard’s 123rd Special Tactics Squadron here, airlifted the residents to Big Sandy Regional Airport in Debord, Kentucky, aboard UH-60 Black Hawk ...

Those rescued were taken just a few miles north to Big Sandy Regional Airport in Debord. From there, a team from the Kentucky Air National Guard helped process evacuees and get them to a shelter ...