It’s been almost a month since Hurricane Helene made landfall and battered the Southeast with winds and floods. In some places, there’s still much to be done.
But Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers are among those still hard at work helping people get back on their feet.
“A lot of our teams are coming back for the second time now,” said Debbie Reese, deputy white hat leader for the ABDR command center in Clearwater, South Carolina.
She and her husband, Al, who is currently serving as the white hat leader there, are among those on their second round of work since Helene hit.
Thousands of volunteer hours
“Our teams here are still staying steadily busy,” she said. “We have six teams in right now, and they have full work loads. The trees are big, and some are very technical to cut.”
The ABDR command center in Clearwater has received 725 total job requests and completed 268 so far.
Mark Wakefield, state disaster relief strategist, said he expects teams will continue working there up until the week before Thanksgiving. He said so far, Alabama Baptist volunteers in the Clearwater area have logged 14,000 volunteer hours serving in a variety of roles — assessors, chainsaw and cleanup workers, chaplains, feeding teams and the laundry and shower unit.
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This article was originally published at TheAlabamaBaptist.org.
