Several Red Cross volunteers from the Finger Lakes and Western New York have been sent to help those impacted by devastating floods and tornadoes across 13 states.
Red Cross workers are providing shelter, food, health and mental health services to people impacted by the storm.
The Red Cross will be handing out relief supplies like brooms, buckets, gloves, shovels, rakes and tarps throughout many affected communities.
Volunteer Jennifer Schaefer of Pittsford was among the most recent volunteers to be deployed. She left for Alabama Saturday to work in Disaster Health Services.
A total of nine volunteers from across the 17-county Western New York/Finger Lakes Region have been deployed to assist in the Red Cross response these to these devastating storms.
Red Cross workers are helping people in Florida, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas and North Carolina. Hundreds of people are staying in Red Cross and community shelters in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kansas, Mississippi and North Carolina. Red Cross workers also are providing meals, health and mental health services.
Those who would like to help people affected by disasters like tornadoes, floods and other crises can make a donation to American Red Cross Disaster Relief. People can donate by visiting www.redcross.org , or by calling 1-800-RED CROSS.
