Red Cross Reaches Out for Help for Sandy - WLNS TV 6 Lansing - Jackson | Your Local News Leader

The local Red Cross Chapter based in Lansing is planning to send at least 25 more volunteers to the east coast, but for now they need your help.

There are three ways you can help your local Red Cross:

• Donate money online on the Red Cross Website
• Donate blood at a local blood drive
• Volunteer for the Red Cross at either a local chapter or for disaster relief on the coast

Alison Bono of the Mid-Michigan chapter says funds are sorely needed.  She says "it takes a lot of money to get everything in place for something this huge. And also to replenish those supplies afterwards, for the next disaster."

6 News spoke with local Red Cross volunteer, Pam McHenry of Bath who is in Virginia right now coordinating emergency response vehicles and shelter supplies.

"Yesterday and this morning we had to stay inside because of the storm. We were not allowed to drive any vehicles so we did that, we just planned for any kind of impact," said McHenry.

She says she will be sent to a different location with more severe damage.

"I have not been reassigned yet, so I don't know where I'm going. Probably, I'm assuming New York or New Hersey because they were hardest hit."