Breathe easy: Oxygen refill sites now available

Buncombe County has released a list of locations open for oxygen tank refills.

By Pruett Norris October 8, 2024 12:01 pm

Associated Press(AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)FILE - A woman pulls tanks filled with oxygen for COVID-19 patients, in the Iztapalapa district of Mexico City, Jan. 26, 2021. The Pan American Health Organization said Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, that some respiratory diseases are emerging in an atypical way in the Americas, one of the possible effects of lack of exposure to these viruses due to confinement and social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — One resource that has become painfully scarce in Buncombe County since the landing of Hurricane Helene last week is oxygen.

Buncombe County residents that require medical oxygen via oxygen tanks have had to scramble to find it in the aftermath of the storm.

However, during the daily 11 a.m. public update yesterday, Oct. 7, Buncombe County officials released a list of sites that are open and available to refill oxygen tanks.

The following locations were on the list:

Palmetto Oxygen LLC, 120 Sweeten Creek Rd., Asheville, N.C. 28803, (828) 285-0235
Blue Ridge Home Care, 101 Caribou Rd., Asheville, N.C. 28803, (828) 232-1110
AeroFlow Health, 3165 Sweeten Creek Rd., Asheville, N.C. 28803, (888) 345-1780
Lincare Inc., 103 Elk Park Dr., Asheville, N.C. 28804, (828) 255-4545
Accucare, 1 Resort Dr., Asheville, N.C. 28806, (828) 236-3100
Bradshaw Oxygen LLC, 60 Laurel Cove Rd., Leicester, N.C. 28748, (888) 380-6297
East Coast Medical Oxygen Inc., 310 Elk Park Dr., Asheville, N.C. 28804, (828) 252-7770

Buncombe County public updates stream daily at 11 a.m. on the county Facebook page.

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