KENANSVILLE — North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey visited the Warsaw and Chinquapin Fire departments on Wednesday, June 30 to honor firefighter Blake Phillips from WFD and Faison Fire Chief Lee Kennedy, and present more than $325,000 in grants to volunteer fire departments and rescue squads.

Both men were honored for life-saving actions they took during a house fire at 570 South, N.C. 50 Highway in Kenansville last January.

  

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