Three dozen first responders and 15 ambulances from Minnesota are headed to North Carolina to help with Hurricane Dorian. Gov. Tim Walz authorized the emergency response when North Carolina asked for assistance through the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, a mutual aid agreement between all 50 states.

The first responders are divided into three teams which each include five ambulances, five paramedics, five emergency medical technicians, a team leader and a logistics support leader. North Carolina Emergency Management will direct the teams’ mission once they arrive in the state. Walz expected the personnel to depart Friday.

A driver accused of striking one of two pedestrians killed in Roseville last January is charged with leaving the scene of the collision. A criminal complaint says 62-year-old Ronald Jacobson was the second motorist to hit a woman as she and a man were crossing the street. A pickup truck driver initially hit Robert Buxton and Meridith Aikens, who died at the scene.

The Star Tribune reports the complaint says Jacobson drank 10 beers at the Tin Cup bar before getting behind the wheel and striking Aikens. A citizen tip led police to Jacobson. Authorities say he admitted that he did not stop at the scene and that he never called police to say his car was involved in the incident.

U.S. health officials on Friday again urged people to stop vaping until they figure out why some are coming down with serious breathing illnesses. Officials said they had identified 450 possible cases, including at least three deaths, in 33 states. The count includes a newly reported death in Indiana. No single vaping device, liquid or ingredient has been tied to all the illnesses, officials said.

Many of the sickened — but not all — were people who said they had been had been vaping THC, the chemical that gives marijuana its high. Health officials have only been counting certain lung illnesses in which the person had vaped within three months. Most are teens. The illnesses have all been reported this year, and the number has been growing quickly in the last month as more and more states have begun investigations.