As Hurricane Milton makes landfall toward the Florida Gulf Coast, volunteers throughout the country are heading down to the area to prepare for a weeks-long relief mission.
Several groups in Western Washington have not only sent volunteers down to the coast but are also sending truckloads of supplies. World Mission out of Fife packed a massive 53-foot truck on Wednesday with those supplies that will make it to Bradenton, Florida, which isn’t far from Tampa.
“We’re loading on hygiene kits. We’re loading generators. We’re loading socks, clothing, diapers, water,” Roberta Taylor with World Mission said.
There are already some volunteers from the Evergreen State in the state of Florida providing relief from Hurricane Helene. Will McMahan, a volunteer from Everett, is in Tallahassee and shares with KIRO 7 some of the madness happening in the area as Milton approaches.
“I mean the last two days I had to make deliveries and I got caught in the evacuation traffic because people are just trying to get out of here,” McMahan said.