Retired Fresno Unified teacher volunteering with Red Cross to help Debby victims

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A retired Fresno Unified teacher is preparing for her adjacent assignment.

Dana Sakoda is headed to North Carolina to service arsenic a Red Cross volunteer, helping victims of present Tropical Storm Debby.

Sakoda spent 22 years successful the classroom.

When she retired successful 2020, she inactive felt a request to assistance others.

That accidental arose aft Hurricane Debby made landfall successful Florida, with deadly 80 MPH winds and utmost flooding.

The tempest has continued to instrumentality a toll -- adjacent aft weakening.

Sakoda volition beryllium heading to Raleigh to assistance residents determination find shelter.

"I person been known to acceptable up and teardrop down cots," she said. "I've been known to lavation them off, cleanable bathrooms, service food."

At slightest six radical person died successful Florida and Georgia arsenic a effect of this almighty storm.