“The first to do is to give blood. When they were rushed to emergency rooms, most likely all of them needed blood.”
Governor Andy Beshear, in collaboration with the Red Cross, is hosting a blood drive in Frankfort. This comes just days after the fatal I-75 shooting, which sent five people to the hospital [four have since been released]. He says that anytime the Commonwealth has faced adversity, Kentuckians have come together to help each other.
“What Kentuckians have shown in response to those disasters we have unfortunately had to experience, is that we are one team,” said Travis Mayo. “And we come together when we have to help each other out.”
Mayo serves as the Chief Deputy General Counsel, in Governor Beshear’s office, but today he was a bigger hero. He was a blood donor.
“We’re all human, and we all need the lifesaving gift from time to time,” Eric Holden, the Regional Executive of Donor Services at the American Red Cross, said.
Both Beshear and Mayo agree that tragedies have brought our community together because, according to Beshear, people in the Commonwealth step up when their neighbor is down.