
Red Cross Kentucky Volunteers
Clip: Season 3 Episode 90 | 2m 40sVideo has Closed Captions
American Red Cross asking for Kentucky volunteers to help Hurricane Helene victims.
The American Red Cross is asking for Kentucky volunteers to help victims of Hurricane Helene.
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Red Cross Kentucky Volunteers
Clip: Season 3 Episode 90 | 2m 40sVideo has Closed Captions
The American Red Cross is asking for Kentucky volunteers to help victims of Hurricane Helene.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> The death toll is now more than 200 from Lane as the states of Georgia and North Carolina report, more deaths after the devastating Hurricane American Red Cross volunteers are working to offer food, water and medical care to those in need.
And many of those volunteers are from Kentucky.
And you can join them.
>> We've guy well over 1200 volunteers out on the ground from across the country in.
Florida, Georgia and North South Carolina, Tennessee.
We did have impact into Virginia Central and southern Ohio, Kentucky.
So West Virginia, all of those folks have their own smaller sized operations that they've got people assigned to as well as we had over 30 homes impacted by downed trees and roof damage because of the high winds over the weekend.
So we've actually got 3 people from the bluegrass chapter who are supporting our own disaster relief operation here in Kentucky.
But we still need more help.
And so we we can use volunteers and every single one of those whether it's being impacted by the hurricane or the wildfire or honestly in a week or 2, whatever is next, right?
We actually have trading opportunities just about every day between now and a Tobar 19th for people to be able to get registered to sign up for those classes.
But first, people do need to register to be a volunteer with the Red Cross and they can do that by going to volunteer connection that Red Cross dot work and then filling out the application there and indicating their interest in disaster services and deployment.
And we've got an entire onboarding team of folks that are following up with them very, very quickly, too.
Get them, you know, get them through the process, get them into a training.
Find out when they're available and then sending them out the door.
Some of our best responders are well into their 60's 70's 80's and up and they're out there, you know, rocking it with the best of them.
So there's definitely no limit.
It really is just, you know, are you physically able to handle relatively austere conditions and be able to do that for 14 days.
It's challenging, but it's also valuable, right?
Because we're able to step into that space and provide that help and provide that hope to folks that are really struggling, right?
I mean, we've had that here in Kentucky with our tornadoes.
We've had that with our floods.
So we know firsthand what that's like to be impacted by that to have family and friends who are impacted by that and to be in those communities.
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