Central Valley sends resources to Florida as state braces for Hurricane Milton

About a twelve PG&E employees from Fresno are successful Florida, acceptable to assistance get the powerfulness backmost connected aft Hurricane Milton knocks it out.

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- As Hurricane Milton moves successful connected Florida, millions of radical are evacuating their homes and preparing for what could beryllium 1 of the astir devastating storms to deed the state.

It comes arsenic the nation's southeast inactive grapples with the devastation of deadly Hurricane Helene which made landfall little than 2 weeks ago.

The mode Milton intensified implicit the past fewer days, means it's each hands connected platform for the American Red Cross.

"With this astonishing everyone, they decided they needed structure enactment and beauteous overmuch everybody's going to person to assistance successful the structure portion of it," said Debbie Rohatch, a unpaid from the American Red Cross of the Central Valley.

Rohatsch landed successful Orlando today.

"The airdrome was precise full. I couldn't archer you precisely wherever they were going but yea a batch of radical moving," said Rohatsch.

She's 1 of 30 volunteers from Central California.

Her deployment is for 2 weeks, but volunteers from each implicit the state are expected to beryllium helping those impacted for months.

Also lending a helping manus are hundreds of Pacific Gas & Electric workers who were already successful the portion pursuing Helene.

"They started to marque reasonably bully advancement connected restoration determination but arsenic advancement was moving forward, Milton's forecast came done for Florida. So we've present moved those aforesaid enactment crews," said PG&E spokesperson Jeff Smith.

About a twelve PG&E employees from Fresno are present successful Florida, acceptable to assistance get the powerfulness backmost connected aft Milton inevitably knocks it out.

"Similar to the benignant of effect we would spot present aft a terrible wintertime tempest successful presumption of resetting poles, replacing transformers, replacing wires," said Smith.

For the thousands of volunteers successful Florida and neighboring states close now, pitching successful during a catastrophe is conscionable the quality happening to do.

"It is simply a privilege. It's truly a privilege to effort and beryllium determination for folks who are going done specified a traumatic thing," said Rohatsch.

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