Valley Red Cross volunteers head to Florida for Hurricane Milton aid

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Local Red Cross chapters successful the Valley and astir the state are preparing their effect to Hurricane Milton acceptable to deed the Florida seashore successful conscionable a substance of days.

A full of 30 American Red Cross volunteers from the Valley are already retired East providing assistance to those deed hardest by Hurricane Helene. Now that a 2nd hurricane is expected to deed Florida, much radical from the Valley are connected their mode to the area.

Nicole Maul is 1 of 8 members of the section Red Cross who are flying to Florida Tuesday to assistance radical successful the way of Hurricane Milton.

“Knowing what's up makes my bosom contention a small bit, but determination is simply a consciousness of pridefulness successful being capable to assistance wherever assistance is needed,” Maul said.

Maul and the remainder of the squad volition onshore successful Tallahassee connected Tuesday day and hold retired the tempest from there. Once Milton clears they volition question to the areas deed hardest by the storm.

“For me, my absorption determination is to assistance pass retired what the Red Cross is doing to assistance those who person been impacted," Maul said. "What we've already seen truthful acold from Helene and different disasters, is we cognize determination is simply a large request for this.”

For Maul, this is not the archetypal clip heading to a catastrophe zone; she has served astatine respective wildfire shelters present successful California and was besides connected the crushed successful Louisiana successful 2021 aft Hurricane Ida decimated the country and claimed lives.

“Just due to the fact that you person been to 1 catastrophe doesn't mean you person seen everything that a catastrophe tin bring. I cognize a batch of folks successful Florida are preparing for the worst-case script close present and thing we tin bash to assistance is truly important,” Maul said.

Those who privation to assistance without traveling to the tempest portion tin bash truthful by donating here.