Asheville Resident Harold Fraleigh Jr. Seeks Help Evacuating Partner’s Brother from Kuwait

An Asheville man, Harold Fraleigh Jr., told WLOS/News 13 that his partner’s brother, Kevin, had his March 1 flight home from Kuwait canceled because of the ongoing conflict in the region, and Fraleigh said he has reached out to Senator Thom Tillis, Senator Ted Budd and Congressman Chuck Edwards seeking government help to evacuate him. WLOS aired the plea and identified Fraleigh as the caller in a report by Rian Stockett.

“A lot of frustration. We're anxious about his safety,” said Asheville resident Harold Fraleigh, Jr., in the segment aired by News 13. Fraleigh provided only the first name Kevin for the relative in Kuwait; the WLOS piece did not supply a last name, airline, flight number or confirm Kevin’s citizenship status.

WLOS framed the incident against a broader regional disruption, stating, “Happening right now, tens of thousands of U.S. citizens are stranded in the Middle East amid the conflict in Iran, which has complicated routes going home.” That wording appears in the News 13 copy accompanying the Asheville segment; other material tied to the clip uses the phrasing escalating U.S.-Iran conflicts in the Middle East to describe the same backdrop.

Fraleigh told the station he had already contacted the offices of Tillis, Budd and Edwards. The WLOS report did not include statements from those congressional offices or from the U.S. State Department, and it did not confirm whether any evacuation flights or official assistance have been offered to people in Kuwait tied to this specific cancellation.

Key verification gaps remain in the public record shown in the WLOS piece: Kevin’s full name and nationality were not provided, the airline and flight details for the March 1 cancellation were not listed on air, and no government response to Fraleigh’s outreach appeared in the segment. The WLOS report’s byline lists Rian Stockett, and the station described the situation as ongoing with present-tense framing.

The News 13 page that carried the segment displayed multiple multimedia assets and page elements tied to the story, including AP images labeled AP26062303670679.jpg and AP26062197906952.jpg and video-frame files 5PM Asheville Relative Stranded Package.mov-frame-727.png and ...-123.png. The page also showed a weather widget reading Now 48° and a note about complete coverage of North Carolina primaries on March 3, 2026, and bore the 2026 Sinclair, Inc. footer.

Harold Fraleigh Jr. appeared on News 13 seeking concrete information about the government’s efforts to bring people in the Middle East back home; as of the WLOS airing, his partner’s brother’s March 1 flight remained canceled and Fraleigh said he continues to press lawmakers for assistance.