{"id":354585,"date":"2025-12-19T02:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T02:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/354585\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T02:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T02:56:07","slug":"greg-biffle-family-dead-in-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/354585\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Biffle, Family Dead in Plane Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of Hurricane Helene\u2019s path of destruction across the southeastern United States in September 2024, Biffle became one of many helicopter pilots who began <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nascar.com\/news-media\/2024\/10\/05\/nascar-greg-biffle-hurricane-helene-relief-efforts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">transporting both supplies and stranded individuals<\/a> in and out of the disaster areas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll tell you, the feeling you get when you win a race, you can only ask drivers, right?\u201d Biffle said. \u201cBecause the feeling you get when you win that race, that\u2019s the feeling you get when you\u2019re able to help people in need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And his efforts weren\u2019t lost on his community.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreg is one of the fiercest drivers in NASCAR history,\u201d Darlington Raceway President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/nascar-cup\/news\/greg-biffle-opens-up-on-hurricane-helene-rescue-as-he-takes-on-nascar-darlington-role\/10710647\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Josh Harris\u00a0said in April.<\/a> \u201cAnd, as shown by his tremendous generosity in giving back to the communities in the Carolinas last year, a winner off the track.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And as Congressman Hudson noted, their efforts were ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The last time I spoke with Cristina, just a couple of weeks ago,&#8221; he recalled in his message on X, &#8220;she reached out to ask how she could help with relief efforts in Jamaica. That\u2019s who the Biffles were.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more on Biffle&#8217;s life off the track with his family, read on.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the wake of Hurricane Helene\u2019s path of destruction across the southeastern United States in September 2024, Biffle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-354585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}