 The community of Floyd County continues to show support of its fallen officers and injured first responders Following a shooting that occurred nearly two weeks ago. You know, we've had support from the community We've had support from other agencies. We've had support in and so many different levels of city government I've I've still gone back and trying to reach out to some of the people who text or email or contacted me and thank them for their time Of course the first week was really devastating. It was really Nobody really knew what to do and after that there's the outpouring of help was just Unbelievable as a result of a shooting that took the lives of three police officers in Floyd County Community members and agencies have rallied through means of fundraising to help out affected families. It means everything I mean, you know, we you go through something like this and you know It's something that's kind of been unprecedented around here These kind of things just don't happen our small small towns and where we are a tight-knit community I mean people, you know, we're it's not like some of the big agencies or big, you know municipalities where People are just a number. I mean these faces these names. Everybody knows everybody and you know, everybody, you know cares for about it and just just seeing that People stepping up, I mean bringing food, you know money, you know, they're bringing, you know donations to families and and really Just being there to lend a hand for a hug, you think I mean it it means a lot to each and every one of us that's still just trying to Trying to heal and trying to recover as you know the days Go on here Experienced heart specialist and subspecialists collaborating for the benefit of your care Top 10% national hospital rankings for patient safety and heart attack and heart failure treatment The technology is skilled to perform extraordinary complex minimally invasive cardiac Electrophysiology interventional and structural heart surgeries. This is a heart and vascular Institute at Pikeville Medical Center When it comes to your heart place your care in our hands Since the shooting on June 30th Stapleton adds that its local department has faced damages Standing the loss of two cruisers Stapleton adds how any proceeds help the department and families right now, there's a lot of donations being taken up you can look at the Appalachian Floyd County community and It's it's got a website that you can donate to and all that money will be divvied up between the families of the fallen but you know, we've got We've got three people that were injured you got Darren Lawson who has other surgeries coming deputy and then we have Joe Reynolds who had to have some surgery and you have Gary Wolf who's had to have some surgery It may have to have more and you know those officers were injured and they've sort of been I Wouldn't say overlooked but a lot of money's been a lot of people been working towards helping the Fallen officers families and stuff and we eventually got start looking towards those three and try to help them out some you know If you watch social media, I was showing a video yesterday of Deputy Lawson getting to see his daughter for the first time and it's it's heartwarming They've got to do that Even though he's injured right now, you know the fact that he is He's able to see his family and stuff That's important. It's very important to donate You can visit the foundation for Appalachia, Kentucky or visit the link in the description for mountaintop news I'm Joel Hortjoll