PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Volunteers and workers from the Pittsburgh-area branches of the Red Cross and the Salvation Army are in Florida for their second hurricane response effort in just a few weeks.
Instead of coming back home to Pennsylvania after helping in Hurricane Helene’s aftermath, they rushed to the path of Hurricane Milton for another brave mission
Heather Martin, deputy director of operations of the Salvation Army of Western Pennsylvania, didn’t hesitate to respond to Aiken, South Carolina, to provide necessities to people rattled by Hurricane Helene .
“That was a very hard-hit area. It was one of the last places we pulled out of because they were the last to receive power back in their area,” Martin said.
Then Hurricane Milton happened, and Martin was deployed to the Tampa area. On Wednesday, she spent the day staging for Hurricane Milton’s response in Lakeland. She said she’s with 30 other people in a safe structure.