LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) -School was not in session at Lincoln High School on Monday, but the building was still playing an important role in the community after a morning fire at a downtown apartment complex left many residents without a home.
“After a disaster happens we aren’t reacting,” Lauren Ritta, Southeast Nebraska Community Disaster Program Manager for the American Red Cross, said. “We’re enacting plans and preparations we’ve being working on for over a year. Our goal is to be able to help within two hours.”
Inside the school, the local Community Disaster Program with the American Red Cross set up a temporary shelter for those displaced by the blaze…