Red Cross updates Florence response, local shelter availability

Press release from American Red Cross | Greater Carolinas Region:

Red Cross Florence Response By The Numbers

• Overnight Saturday, more than 20,000 people sought refuge in more than 200 Red Cross and community shelters across the impacted region.
• This includes at least 17,000 people in 139 shelters in North Carolina, and 3,000 people in 59shelters in South Carolina. Nearly 100 additional people stayed in 13 shelters in Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, Maryland and Kentucky.
• Working with partners, the Red Cross has served 129,444 meals and snacks across eight states.
• About 2,330 Red Cross disaster workers from all over the country have been mobilized to help shelter, feed and support people affected by Florence.
• The Red Cross is mobilizing more than 130 emergency response vehicles and more than 70 trailers of equipment and supplies, including ready-to-eat meals and enough cots and blankets for more than 100,000 people.
• We’re also working with the Southern Baptists to deploy multiple field kitchens that can together produce 170,000 meals per day.
  Since September 11, more than 3.9 million weather alerts have been sent through Red Cross apps to help people make lifesaving decisions.

Shelters in WNC as of 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018:

• Ashe County
  NEW – Ashe County High School, 184 Campus Dr., West Jefferson, N.C.
• Buncombe County
  NEW – Swannanoa First Baptist Church,503 Park St., Swannanoa, N.C.
• McDowell County (incorrectly noted as Marion County previously)
  Grace Corpening YMCA, 348 Grace Corpening Dr., Marion, N.C.
• Polk County
  Polk County Middle School, 321 Wolverine Tr., Mill Spring, N.C.
• Watauga County
  Alliance Bible Fellowship, 1035 NC Highway 105 Bypass, Boone, N.C.