MOORE COUNTY, N.C. — It’s been one year since two electrical substations were shot at in Moore County. Nearly 45,000 people were without power for five days because of the damage. The FBI and Moore County Sheriff’s Office are still searching for whoever is responsible.

Rachel Jurgens opened Red’s Corner food truck park about eight months before that massive power outage in Moore County. She says it was great timing because the trucks can run on generators, so they were able to be there to help those in need.

James Ostrander, the owner of Grill Me Up, was one of the food truck owner’s that helped feed people during the power outage.

“I know a friend that has a farm about 5 miles down the road. We got 500 pounds of beef from him, and we sold out in like two days,” Ostrander said. “Driving at 11:00 at night to get gas for the generators, gas for your car. It was a lot. Then we would be prepping in this little space at 2:00 in the morning so we could have more food at 11 a.m.”

Jurgens said she just so happened to already have a plan for how her business could run without power.

“I did build the place to run without power, so I have a hot water heater that's gas. I knew the food trucks could run on generators, and the beer flows downhill, so I didn't have to have any reason to have electricity for that,” Jurgens said.

She never could have predicted that later that year, two electrical substations would be shot at and damaged in Moore County.

“Slowly, it started to build that it had been something bigger than just a one-off thing. And it was sad,” Jurgens said.

One year later, Jurgens says the community is still waiting to learn who was behind it all.

In the meantime, she’s reflecting on the memories of that long cold week last December.

“I remember a girl came up and just hugged me and said, ‘Thank you. It's the first time I was warm in two days.’ And those things are just going to be in my heart forever,” Jurgens said. “So the food trucks were also getting the linemen fed for free who needed food that they couldn't get here, elderly that couldn't get here, or people that didn't have vehicles. We were shipping food out to to them.”

It was an incredibly challenging time but Jurgens says she was in awe watching everyone come together to help one another.

“The Moore County and Southern Pines area, these people are incredible. And not that I want it to happen to anyone, but we were lucky it happened here because we're great. We're a great community,” Jurgens said. “It was kind of an oddly neat experience also how this community came together.”

On Friday, the FBI announced that officials want help finding a minivan because they believe the people inside it may have information about this investigation.

They say a minivan, likely a Honda Odyssey, was seen between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. on December 3, 2022, the night of the substation shootings. The van is likely silver or light blue and between the years 2011 to 2017.

Anyone with information is asked to call the FBI at 1-800-225-5324 or the Moore County Sheriff’s Office at 910-947-4444. There’s a combined reward of up to $100,000 for information that helps solve the case.

In response to the Moore County substation attacks, state lawmakers unanimously passed a new law this year that increases penalties for someone who intentionally damages utility equipment.