With her deployment to Iowa yesterday, American Red Cross volunteer Donna Davis joined a group of volunteers from the 27-county Western New York region who have been deployed to assist residents in other areas of the country impacted by devastating storms. A total of eight local Red Cross volunteers are currently deployed to Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa and northern Florida relief operations – six of them onsite and two in a virtual capacity. The group also includes one volunteer who is assisting with ongoing Red Cross relief efforts related to the horrendous wildfires in Hawaii last year.
The recent deployments include:
- 1 volunteer deployed to Hawaii
- 1 volunteer deployed (virtual) to Oklahoma
- 3 volunteers deployed (1 virtual, 2 onsite) to East Texas
- 2 volunteers deployed to North Florida
- 1 volunteer deployed to Iowa
“Our volunteers represent the core of the American Red Cross and are the primary reason we have been successful in carrying out our mission for more than a century,” said Nick Bond, CEO of the American Red Cross of Western New York region. “Our local volunteers are active every day in responding to home fires or any other emergency that arises. I am proud and grateful that they also answer the call to help in other regions when disasters we are seeing in other parts of our country occur.”
Volunteer responsibilities range from assisting with mass sheltering and feeding to damage assessment, to coordinating external relations with government agencies and other responding organizations.
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