Local Red Cross heads to Texas, monitors heavy rains locally

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Local Red Cross heads to Texas, monitors heavy rains locally

By Tiffany Griffin

Story Created: Sep 13, 2008 at 2:04 PM EST

Story Updated: Sep 13, 2008 at 2:17 PM EST

The American Red Cross, St. Joseph County chapter announced Saturday that it planned to send at least four volunteers to Texas in the wake of Hurricane Ike and also was helping some local flooding victims.

The volunteers were to depart on Sunday for Dallas, where they will be assigned to the disaster operation. Ten volunteers from the chapter remain in Louisiana, where they have been serving since Hurricane Gustav caused widespread damage and the evacuation of more than 2 million residents over the Labor Day weekend.

Meanwhile, in St. Joseph County Saturday, police called Red Cross volunteers to three homes on Charles Avenue, near the South Bend Regional Airport. The volunteers arrived to find that water had not entered the homes but a drainage ditch apparently became blocked, causing standing water, said John Pinter, local Red Cross executive director.

The blockage was cleared and the Red Cross determined it did not need to open a shelter, but was providing bottled water until the homeowners can have their wells checked for contamination, Pinter said.

The agency also sent two volunteers to an area of Osceola that has seen flooding problems in the past, although it was unknown whether it was flooding Saturday, Pinter said.

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