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Monday, April 14, 2025 2:55AM
As radical successful the Midwest and Southeast of the U.S. cleanable up aft catastrophic storms past week, volunteers nationwide are readying up to help.
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Shirley Bahr from the Fresno section of the American Red Cross is 1 of the volunteers making her mode to Kentucky.
"From the freeway, you tin spot flooding disconnected successful the region successful a batch of the little lining areas," Shirley Bahr said.
The bluegrass state, on with Tennessee, Indiana and Arkansas, person experienced terrible upwind successful the past week.
Officials accidental this is simply a historical magnitude of rainfall for the region.
Benton, Kentucky, saw upwards of 15 inches of rainfall portion Arkansas and Tennessee experienced implicit 14 inches of downpour.
As of Sunday, the decease toll sits astatine astir 24 people. ABC News reports that 1 of the deaths includes a 9-year-old Kentucky lad who was swept distant by floodwaters erstwhile helium was walking to his autobus stop.
Bahr says since the devastation, the American Red Cross acceptable up astir 15 antithetic shelters successful the country of Paducah, Kentucky.
"We are radical present from Florida, we person idiosyncratic locally that is from Louisville, Kentucky. We adjacent person a unpaid astatine our structure that comes from Saipan, which is simply a federation adjacent Guam," she said.
Bahr says she'll beryllium successful the authorities for astir 2 weeks, moving arsenic a structure supervisor, making definite radical person what they request portion they effort to grapple with the unimaginable nonaccomplishment of their homes.
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