Just two days after the devastating wildfires began sweeping across the island of Maui, the San Antonio Red Cross deployed two of its members.
“Volunteers are there to just give comfort, to be able to be there for them to have that hard conversation,” said San Antonio and South Texas Red Cross Chairman of the Board, Dr. Jeremy Roberts.“So if somebody has a family member or a loved one in the affected area, we’re able to make that connection through our supply chain,” Roberts said.“There’s a lot of military personnel that want to make sure that their families are okay,” he said.
One of them is Ralph Lipps, who started volunteering for the local Red Cross in October 2022 and has already been deployed to Florida, El Paso, California, Arkansas, Vermont and now Hawaii. “A lot of our volunteers are cross-trained in many aspects. They can do sheltering, they can do damage assessment, they can do disaster action team, which goes out into the community and helps out by figuring out what their needs are at that time,” said San Antonio Red Cross Volunteer Disaster Program Manager Mac McNell.While just two San Antonio volunteers are on the ground in Maui, the local volunteers are trained and ready if they’re asked to send more.
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