- February 7, 2025
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FPC football players Ryan Freeman and Emerson Cheney carry out a mattress damaged by Irma. Photo by Paige Wilson
Bill and Fran Noble have been teachers at FPC for 31 and 30 years, respectively. When their Flagler Beach home was flooded by Hurricane Irma, FPC football players stepped up to help. Photo by Paige Wilson
FPC football players Donovan Montoyo and Ashton Newman carry furniture damaged by Irma. Photo by Paige Wilson
FPC football players Nathan Vuong, Emerson Cheney, Abraham Hashem, Wilens Paul, Ashton Newman, Malakai Grant and Jason Chum (bottom) pose for a photo after cleaning up the Noble's home. Photo by Paige Wilson
FPC football players Donovan Montoyo and Ashton Newman carry out a mattress ruined by Irma. Photo by Paige Wilson
FPC football players carry damaged items to the curb. Photo by Paige Wilson
FPC sent two vans full of football players to Flagler Beach to volunteer on Sept. 13 after they spent the morning cleaning up the FPC campus. Photo by Paige Wilson
Piles of damaged home items sit outside the Noble's home in Flagler Beach. Photo by Paige Wilson
FPC football players pose in Flagler Beach as they volunteer to clean up homes affected by Hurricane Irma. Photo courtesy of Brandon Seminara
Fran Noble was watching TV at 5 a.m. Monday, Sept. 11 as Hurricane Irma howled outside her Flagler Beach home.
What happened about 30 minutes later was “terrifying,” she said.
“That’s when we saw the water was rushing in from the back and the front, so we grabbed our two dogs and ran out in knee-deep water to the car,” she said.
Two days later, Fran and her husband, Bill Noble, were overcome with relief when about 35 Flagler Palm Coast High School football players showed up at their Flagler Beach home to help them clean the mess Irma left behind.
Bill and Fran have worked at FPC for 31 and 30 years, respectively. The pair watched as some of their former students got to work in their yard on Sept. 13.
“It was like the cavalry appeared,” Bill said. “They pulled up in two vans, and boom, next thing you know I have 35 people in the yard, and they cleaned it out within a half an hour.”
The Nobles said they’re grateful FPC Principal Dustin Sims could coordinate this effort to help clean up the house they have lived in since 1990.
“It was a sigh of relief because we just were a little overwhelmed trying to figure out how we were going to get all this done,” Fran said.
