When Claudia Lima – a captain with the White Cross Volunteer Fire Department in rural Orange County – was searching for a new home earlier this year, she knew exactly where to look. Wanting to be closer to the fire station rather than making the drive from her Carrboro apartment, she started renting a small house off Old Greensboro Road. “And I was super excited,” Lima told Chapelboro. “It was perfect – it’s three minutes from the fire station, it was a two-bedroom, it was great for me and my dog [Mollie]. And so we moved, officially, the 15th of April.” When she left her home and dog Mollie the night of July 6 — as Tropical Depression Chantal dropped its historic rainfall onto the region — it was to help cover the fire station after other volunteers responded to water in the road across the district. But as she arrived around 7 p.m., the calls from Chapel Hill came in for help conducting water rescues around Camelot Village because of the flash flooding triggered by Chantal’s intens...