PHILADELPHIA - Volunteers from our area are heading to the Gulf Coast as Hurricane Laura continues to rapidly strengthen as it approaches the Gulf Coast.
The "extremely dangerous" Category 4 hurricane now has maximum sustained winds near 150 mph.Interrupted by tornado warnings while sitting in his Baton Rouge hotel room Wednesday, Red Cross volunteer Chris Evans from Ardmore is waiting for Hurricane Laura to make landfall so he can get to work.Evan is one of about a dozen American Red Cross volunteers from Pennsylvania and New Jersey deployed this week to the Gulf coast ahead of Laura's landfall.
It's Evans first disaster deployment.“So I’ll be working at a shelter providing quite literally beds and a roof to those who have evacuated and.