More than 40 members of Massachusetts Task Force Once packed up and traveled to the Gulf Coast.
Other first responders from New England, including the Manchester, NH, fire department, are also planning to assist states forecasted to be impacted by Hurricane Helene.As the Sunshine State braces for impact, the Bay State is lending a helping hand as dozens of volunteers head south to assist with whatever Hurricane Helene has in store.
“There’s not a lot of storms on record of this size that have hit this area," Charlie Lubowicki, of Mass. Task Force One, said."It's going to have a greater impact inland than we usually see hurricanes do and that is why there's a lot of preparations for response for flooding in the areas of Georgia, the Carolinas, and then Tennessee, as well," Lubowicki said.
About a dozen volunteers from the Red Cross of Massachusetts are also heading into the storm, joining nearly 300 Red Cross volunteers from across the country going to Florida as businesses board up and evacuations continue in anticipation of the storm. Hurricane Helene is approaching land in northwestern Florida as an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm. Here's a look at the hazards for land, plus the larger weather systems across the country, into New England.
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