Local families working to help loved ones impacted by Hurricane Helene

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Local families are doing each they tin to assistance nonstop resources to their loved ones who are impacted by Hurricane Helene.

"There are much than 1,000 catastrophe workers connected the ground, 20 of those are from Central California," said Taylor Poisall with the American Red Cross successful Fresno.

Poisall says the enactment had astir 70 antithetic shelters unfastened implicit the weekend.

"As we've seen, determination person been monolithic roadworthy closures with infrastructure affected. Severe powerfulness outages, deficiency of compartment service," Poisall explained.

Aerial footage amusement homes washing away, and neighborhoods nether water.

Fresno nonmigratory Karen Yost's daughter, Kali, is successful the catastrophe zone.

"I can't assistance her. That's what bothers me, I can't assistance her," said Yost.

Yost says 2 years agone her daughter, Kali, packed up her belongings and moved from the Tower District to Asheville, North Carolina.

"She said it was existent bad, that's each she could accidental astir it, it's existent bad. During the storm, she sounded, the 2nd clip I spoke with her, she astir sounded similar she was panicked," said Yost.

Yost says each of her belongings were destroyed arsenic her flat was near wholly nether water.

With her 2 cats, she drove hours distant to beryllium with household successful Tennessee.

Yost believes her girl whitethorn beryllium retired of enactment for months.

But she's not the lone Central Valley genitor disquieted astir their kid thousands of miles away.

"She did person carnal harm to her home. A small spot of flooding successful the front. The powerfulness is out, nary h2o astatine this time," said Visalia autochthonal Conrad Castro.

Castro's daughter, Salina is simply a veteran, she severed 8 years successful the army, and did 3 tours overseas.

She settled successful Georgia wherever she is raising her 2 daughters unsocial and moving arsenic a navigator astatine a veteran's hospital.

"She's inactive showing up to enactment but precise constricted what they're doing determination arsenic acold arsenic backmost up generators," said Castro.

Castro says Salina is staying with friends successful South Carolina and commuting astir 40 minutes each time to spell to work.

"She's beardown willed. she would archer maine not to worry, dad. She's independent, hard-working, precise arrogant of her," said Castro.

The American Red Cross is looking for volunteers to assistance with the Hurricane Helene betterment efforts.

GoFundMe accounts person been acceptable up to assistance Yost and Castro's daughters.

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