The fire broke out on Wednesday in Old Fort, North Carolina, which was one of the North Carolina towns hardest hit by Hurricane Helene when the storm made landfall in September.

Wildfires have broken out in western North Carolina. Kournikova, who stays mostly out of the spotlight, has been with singer Enrique Iglesias since 2001. Phyllis Fong, a 22-year veteran of the Agriculture Department, had told colleagues that she intended to stay after the White House fired her Friday.

Wednesday marked four months since Hurricane Helene ravaged the western Carolinas - and residents in McDowell County are facing yet another hardship.

Although the work to rebuild western North Carolina since it was shattered by a storm last fall has been shadowed by complications, disaster relief groups are hoping for change now that President Donald Trump has assumed office.

During his inaugural address on Monday, Trump spoke about how Hurricane Helene wreaked havoc upon rural areas of the Tar Heel State in late September.

Enrollment has rebounded at North Carolina's three state universities in the mountainous western part of the state that was slammed by Hurricane Helene last fall.

On Tuesday at 2:34 p.m. the NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC issued a wind advisory valid for Wednesday between midnight and 6 p.m. The advisory is for Caldwell Mountains, Burke Mountains and McDowell Mountains.

Evacuations were ordered after a wildfire ignited in McDowell County, western North Carolina, on Wednesday, . This is the same area that was hit hard by Hurricane Helene in the fall.

A wildfire can be seen burning in the mountains behind a home in Old Fort, North Carolina, where many homes were devastated by Helene in late September.