News 1st Place: Heather Rousseau/The Roanoke Times Published December 8, 2015 at × in News 1st Place: Heather Rousseau/The Roanoke Times Ashley Hill, 24, of Roanoke and John Joplin, 74, of Rocky Mount, make calls from their cars while waiting to be rescued from a Roanoke Fire-EMS swift water rescue team on Tuesday after 9:30 p.m. on Bennington Street SE.