Roaming Red Cross Relief Hero |
Carmela Burke
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Carmela in a word... Ready
Carmela is a Hometown Hero because...
Carmela is a hero because she is willing to learn whatever it takes to help her neighbors.
More about Carmela...
Carmela has been a Red Cross volunteer since 1992, specializing in public information, and more recently has become qualified to instruct community disaster education courses. Her first relief operation was Hurricane Iniki in Hawaii and she has also been part of responses to hurricanes in St. Croix, and Pensacola, Florida. After 9/11 she was sent to New York in January 2002 as part of the American Red Cross relief efforts. She also helped during Hurricane Katrina, and was on the ground for Hurricane Rita. Carmela was also in Beaumont, Texas for the floods in October 2006.
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