(NewsNation) — Before Hurricane Milton made landfall successful Florida, tornadoes ripped done the state, with St. Lucie County being 1 of the areas deed hardest.
A section therapy dog, Ben, came retired of status and present goes door-to-door, offering a caput to favored for residents who are now picking up the pieces aft the storm.
"He has travel a agelong way, but I'm precise arrogant of him, and he's a earthy astatine what helium does," Olivia Chasse, Ben's owner, said.
Ben worked astatine a nursing home, but during the COVID-19 pandemic, they stopped allowing visitors, truthful Chasse decided the clip had travel to fto him "just beryllium a canine and bask life."
After the hurricane, though, Chasse saw radical donating food, clip and supplies and besides wanted to help.
"I thought, 'Well, we've got thing a small spot antithetic that we tin offer,'" Chasse said. "(Ben) got beauteous excited astir going to work. He knew helium was going to get immoderate backmost scratches."