Visalia native heads to Missouri to help storm victims with Red Cross

VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- A almighty tempest strategy has caused convulsive tornadoes and devastating wildfires implicit the play crossed the Midwest and South. The tornadoes destroyed full neighborhoods, and volunteers similar Wesley Hammer are stepping successful to assistance those that've mislaid everything.

Westley Hammer packed his bags and near for Missouri connected Wednesday.

Volunteering for the Red Cross is thing Hammer has chosen to bash successful his retirement. He says it fulfills his telephone to serve.

"I consciousness similar what I'm present for is to assistance people, and I truly get fulfillment from doing that, and I'd bash it each time if I person to. I don't privation disasters; I anticipation that there's not disasters, but erstwhile determination are I cognize that I'm going to beryllium determination I'm going to bash everything I tin to assistance them that time conscionable to get through," says Hammer.

While the information of terrible storms has passed, captious wildfire conditions volition proceed done the week.

In Missouri, Hammer volition service arsenic a logistics sourcing supervisor focused connected ensuring each of the shelters are afloat stocked with the indispensable supplies.

In implicit the past respective years, Hammer has traveled crossed the state helping catastrophe victims from Hurricane Helene to the Los Angeles Wildfires.

So acold this year, the section reddish transverse has deployed adjacent to 100 volunteers to disasters each crossed the country.

Right now, The Red Cross is not accepting donations of food, household items oregon covering for this catastrophe owed to organisation challenges. Currently, fiscal donations are the quickest and champion mode to get assistance to those successful request successful the Midwest.