HOSPITAL. STAY WITH WYFF NEWS 4 AS WE LEARN MORE. FRIENDS AND FAMILY OF GREG BIFFLE ARE PREPARING FOR SEVERAL MEMORIAL EVENTS THIS WEEKEND HERE IN OUR AREA. THE FORMER NASCAR DRIVER IS REMEMBERED FOR MORE THAN HIS WORK ON THE TRACK, BUT ALSO HIS EFFORTS IN THE AFTERMATH OF HURRICANE HELENE. TODAY, OUR NATE STANLEY SPOKE WITH BIFFLE’S IMPACT, WITH ONE ORGANIZATION HE HELPED WITH THE MOST. HE JOINS US NOW LIVE WITH MORE ON THAT STORY. NATE. THE RESCUE SQUAD HAS BEEN CRUCIAL IN PROVIDING AID FOR SOME OF THE COMMUNITIES MOST HIT BY HURRICANE HELENE, HELPING HUNDREDS. THE GROUP’S LEADERS TELL ME THAT GREG BIFFLE WAS ALWAYS THERE TO LEND A HELPING HAND, PROVIDE TIME AND RESOURCES. THE LIVES THAT HE IMPACTED IS IS A MAGNITUDE. IT’S IT’S, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN’T PUT IT INTO NUMBERS. JUST WHAT HE DID, HOW MUCH HE DID AND JUST HOW SELFISH HE WAS WHEN HE WAS IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. THOSE ARE THE WORDS THAT ORGANIZERS WITH THE RESCUE SQUAD USE TO EXPLAIN THE LEGACY OF GREG BIFFLE. I WOULD TEXT GREG SOMETIMES TEN, 11:00 AT NIGHT AND BE LIKE, HEY, I HAVE A FAMILY IN NEED. THIS IS WHAT THEY’RE IN NEED OF. AND IT WOULD BE 24 HOURS. VOLUNTEERS WITH THE ORGANIZATION HAVE BEEN ON THE GROUND SERVING THE MOST IMPACTED FAMILIES AFTER HURRICANE HELENE. YOU KNOW, WE HAD PEOPLE SHOW UP, BRING SUPPLIES, BRING HELPING HANDS, CHAINSAWS, WHATEVER IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, YOU KNOW, AS AS SMALL AS CANNED FOOD TO AS BIG AS, YOU KNOW, EXCAVATORS, BACKHOES, TRACTORS, WHATEVER IT MAY BE. THE RETIRED NASCAR DRIVER WAS ONE OF THE MOST HELPFUL AFTER THE STORM, GETTING THE GETTING THE, YOU KNOW, THE GENERATORS THERE, THE FOOD, THE WATER. HE WAS RUNNING HIS HELICOPTER MULTIPLE TIMES A DAY TO THE HARDEST HIT AREAS, TO PEOPLE CUT OFF FROM ROADS, BRIDGES, EVERYTHING THAT WAS WASHED AWAY TO WHERE THEY LITERALLY COULDN’T BE REACHED BY ANYBODY ELSE. BIFFLE AND HIS FAMILY DIED TRAGICALLY IN A PLANE CRASH IN NORTH CAROLINA, LEAVING A LEGACY OF SELFLESSNESS. PEOPLE THAT KNOW HIM FROM HIS RACING CAREER TO HIS HUMANITARIAN CAREER, HE JUST I WOULD JUST SAYING BE LIKE, BIFF IS DEFINITELY SOMETHING I THINK IS GOING TO HAVE A LEGACY. ON HIS IMPACT AND HIS HUMANITARIAN EFFORTS, BUT IT’S JUST HE’S A GUY. I THINK THE BEST THING I CAN SAY ABOUT BIFFLE IS THAT HE ALWAYS ANSWERED THE CALL. NO MATTER, NO MATTER WHAT IT WAS. AND. THE RESCUE SQUAD ALSO PLANS TO HOST A GOLF CHALLENGE TOURNAMENT IN PAWLEYS ISLAND ON MAY 16TH. WE’RE TOLD THEY’RE LOOKING TO RAISE OVER $30,00
Greg Biffle’s humanitarian work remembered in Western North Carolina
The NASCAR driver, who died in December, was crucial to recovery efforts in Hurricane Helene’s aftermath.
Updated: 11:44 PM EST Jan 2, 2026
This weekend, family and friends will gather to honor the lives of some of the victims killed in a plane crash in Statesville, North Carolina, last month. Services for Dennis and Jack Dutton were held Friday, and a memorial service for Greg Biffle’s daughter Emma will take place on Sunday in Cornelius.For many in Western North Carolina, Biffle’s legacy extends beyond the racetrack, as later in life, his humanitarian work helped save lives. “The lives that he impacted is a magnitude. You can’t put it into numbers, just what he did, how much he did, and just how selfish he was when he was in Western North Carolina,” says Tyler Polling with The Rescue Squad Inc.Polling is the Vice President Logistics Coordinator for The Rescue Squad and worked alongside Biffle in his recovery efforts. “I would text Greg sometimes at 10 11 o’clock at night and be like, ‘Hey, I have a family need. This is what they’re in need of.’ It wouldn’t be 24 hours, and Greg was already making it happen,” he says.Volunteers with the organization have been on the ground, serving the most impacted families after Hurricane Helene. “We had people show up, bring supplies, bring helping hands, chainsaws, whatever it might have been, you know, as small as canned food to as big as, you know, excavators, backhoes, tractors, whatever it is,” says Connor White, a training and support liaison with the group.”They say Biffle was one of the most helpful after the storm. “Like getting the generators there, the food, the water. He was running his helicopter multiple times a day to the hardest hit areas, to people cut off from roads, bridges, everything that was washed away, to where they literally couldn’t be reached by anybody else,” says Polling. Biffle and his family were tragically killed in a December plane crash in North Carolina, leaving behind a legacy of selflessness. “From People that know him from his racing career to his humanitarian career, the saying Be Like Biff is definitely something I think is going to have a legacy on his impact and his humanitarian efforts. I think the best thing I can say about Biffle is that he always answered the call, no matter what it was,” Polling says.Polling says The Rescue Squad will be hosting a golf challenge on Pawley’s Island on May 16th. He says the host is to raise $30,000-$40,000 that will go to help families impacted by the storm. More information will be posted on the group’s Facebook Page.Federal investigators continue to look into the events that led to that deadly crash. An NTSB report is expected this month.
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This weekend, family and friends will gather to honor the lives of some of the victims killed in a plane crash in Statesville, North Carolina, last month.
Services for Dennis and Jack Dutton were held Friday, and a memorial service for Greg Biffle’s daughter Emma will take place on Sunday in Cornelius.
For many in Western North Carolina, Biffle’s legacy extends beyond the racetrack, as later in life, his humanitarian work helped save lives.
“The lives that he impacted is a magnitude. You can’t put it into numbers, just what he did, how much he did, and just how selfish he was when he was in Western North Carolina,” says Tyler Polling with The Rescue Squad Inc.
Polling is the Vice President Logistics Coordinator for The Rescue Squad and worked alongside Biffle in his recovery efforts.
“I would text Greg sometimes at 10 [or] 11 o’clock at night and be like, ‘Hey, I have a family need. This is what they’re in need of.’ It wouldn’t be 24 hours, and Greg was already making it happen,” he says.
Volunteers with the organization have been on the ground, serving the most impacted families after Hurricane Helene.
“We had people show up, bring supplies, bring helping hands, chainsaws, whatever it might have been, you know, as small as canned food to as big as, you know, excavators, backhoes, tractors, whatever it is,” says Connor White, a training and support liaison with the group.”
They say Biffle was one of the most helpful after the storm.
“Like getting the generators there, the food, the water. He was running his helicopter multiple times a day to the hardest hit areas, to people cut off from roads, bridges, everything that was washed away, to where they literally couldn’t be reached by anybody else,” says Polling.
Biffle and his family were tragically killed in a December plane crash in North Carolina, leaving behind a legacy of selflessness.
“From People that know him from his racing career to his humanitarian career, the saying Be Like Biff is definitely something I think is going to have a legacy on his impact and his humanitarian efforts. I think the best thing I can say about Biffle is that he always answered the call, no matter what it was,” Polling says.
Polling says The Rescue Squad will be hosting a golf challenge on Pawley’s Island on May 16th. He says the host is to raise $30,000-$40,000 that will go to help families impacted by the storm. More information will be posted on the group’s Facebook Page.
Federal investigators continue to look into the events that led to that deadly crash. An NTSB report is expected this month.