With a storm headed for Florida, and hurricane season about to hit it's peak, Red Cross volunteers are ready to be deployed. KSAT got to sit in on a training, watched volunteers check their supplies, and went to the warehouse to see the pallets all loaded up and ready.
With a storm headed for Florida and hurricane season about to hit its peak, volunteers are ready to be deployed any day. KSAT got to sit in on training, watched volunteers check their supplies and went to the warehouse to see pallets loaded.– They’re ready at a moment’s notice; that’s the goal of the local Red Cross in how they train their volunteers.
“The volunteers, they are brushing up on training and understand that if they need to clear their schedule to be able to be deployed, they’re ready to go,” said Dr. Jeremy Roberts.He said hurricane training is essentially a year-round process, and it won’t be long until preparation becomes a reality.
“We already have the food packaged and ready to go. We have chips, we have water, we have coffee. Those things that we can handle and give out immediately. We’re ready to go,” she said, sitting in the truck. While he said most volunteers will deploy to hurricane scenes, some stay in San Antonio for sheltering.
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