Marylanders Heading To Kentucky To Help With Disaster Relief

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Three Marylanders are connected their mode to Kentucky to assistance with alleviation efforts pursuing a drawstring of deadly tornadoes implicit the weekend.

A full of 16 volunteers with the American Red Cross National Capital and Greater Chesapeake Region are being deployed to the Kentucky Dam Village State Park, which is conscionable fractional an hr from Mayfield, 1 of the hardest-hit areas successful the state.

Ashley Henyan, communications manager for the nonprofit, has been progressive with alleviation efforts during erstwhile disasters. She said it’s an acquisition that tin lone beryllium described arsenic surreal.

“It is conscionable precise had to spot and process, past cognize that there’s a existent family–a mother, a father, children, pets–behind those destroyed homes,” Henyan said.

Four teams of 2 are bringing exigency effect vehicles to the tornado-stricken authorities to present food, water, cleanup kits and different captious supplies to families successful request arsenic they prime up the pieces.

Volunteer deployments typically past 14 days, Henyan said, but much volunteers volition get to relieve the radical and assistance families arsenic agelong arsenic assistance is needed.

Henyan said the champion mode for astir radical to lend to alleviation efforts is by donating wealth oregon blood. She said humor donations are captious due to the fact that section groups are incapable to bash truthful close now.

“That means that determination are units of humor that volition beryllium missing to our infirmary partners unless radical extracurricular the impacted country measurement up and donate,” Henyan said.

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To larn much astir however you tin help, visit the Red Cross website.