# @chapelboronews on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DMNyRw4uLn_
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/32427885-chapelboronews-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-07-17T16:20:53.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chapelboro.com (@chapelboronews) — https://gondola.cc/chapelboronews

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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 intense rain.

“I was a little bit terrified – yes, I run into burning buildings, but water scares me a little bit,” said Lima. “We took our big [military-grade] truck out there and when we got to the place where we started water rescues, it was like a river had taken over the road. You couldn’t see the road, you couldn’t see the sidewalk, it was all running water.”

At one point during the night, Lima ran into her station chief, J. Phillip Nasseri, who she’d asked to keep an eye on her place amid the storm. He told her he’d seen water from the road reach up to her house – but said not to worry and assured the fire captain Mollie would be okay. Still, when returning home at 5 a.m. with rescues finished and the water receded, Lima was unprepared. She said her heart stopped when she opened the door and saw her first floor.

“The floors were wrecked, the house smelled horrible, everything was wet,” Lima said. “The poor dog was on the couch, looking at me like, ‘Mom, what just happened?’ Everything in my house has a specific place, I’m very organized – and it was just like something came by and threw stuff everywhere.”

Full story on Chapelboro.com.
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