Volunteers from all over the world are headed to the Southeast United States to help families impacted by Hurricane Milton. Many of those volunteers are from Colorado.
The American Red Cross alone has 60 volunteers from Colorado that are in Georgia, Florida and North Carolina. The Red Cross plans to send more in the coming days. One of those volunteers, Phi Filerman, is from Carbondale, Colorado.
“What can I do,” Filerman said. “You watch all of these disasters on the news, and you just feel so helpless. And I think if you’re someone who just sort of has that natural inclination to want to do something… the Red Cross just seemed like a natural fit.”
Feeling called to action, Filerman joined a local branch of the Red Cross in Colorado. She is currently volunteering at an evacuation center in Georgia.
“It’s been set up to be ready for people that are evacuating Milton, and we have nobody here,” Filerman said.
But Filerman said they are expecting the gym to be full with hundreds of people evacuating Hurricane Milton in the next 24 hours.