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Philadelphia Red Cross team sends aid to North Carolina [Video]

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — An emergency response vehicle at the Center City headquarters of American Red Cross Southeastern Pennsylvania Region hit the road for North Carolina on Wednesday to support communities devastated by Hurricane Helene.

Mary Noll, an American Red Cross volunteer for 19 years, was behind the wheel of the ERV.

“It’s a feeding vehicle. There is a serving window on the side,” Noll said. “And we go out into the communities and deliver food to shelters and churches for fixed feeding, but we will also go door to door in the disaster zones. And we will feed people who need a hot meal, because they don’t have any power and that helps to keep them close to their homes so they can continue to clean out their home and get back to some semblance of normal.”

Accompanying Noll is Jennifer Graham, CEO of American Red Cross Southeastern Pennsylvania Region.

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