![]() ![]() It was really exciting for me because I am a public facing type of person and love boots on the ground type of work. We went door to door, knocking on doors and asking to come in and check smoke alarms or install them if there weren’t any. The first time I volunteered I was paired with a cable installer from Midco. I’ve always enjoyed presenting the Pillowcase Project to kids and talking about emergencies and home fires and smoke alarms and this leads to my volunteering to help install smoke alarms in my local community as part of Sound the Alarm. ![]() So, she explained it to me and when I got back after my deployment I took the training and became a pillowcase instructor. Waiting to be sent to a shelter and having lunch one day in the back table with other people, I met someone from Georgia that was involved with the Pillowcase Project and since I’m a former educator I was really interested in the project and I never heard of it. I flew into Atlanta and caught a ride to Macon, Georgia and was deployed there in a warehouse. A couple days later I got asked to deploy to Texas, and then it changed very soon because another hurricane came in to Georgia and I ended up going to Georgia and doing a two week deployment in sheltering. I went to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and trained for sheltering because there was a call for volunteers before some hurricanes were heading to the state of Texas. About five years ago, I was looking for a volunteer opportunity and decided to join the American Red Cross. ![]()
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