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'These Families Do Need You': 19-Year-Old Red Cross Volunteer Reflects On Disasters

Andrew Enos traveled to Texas and Florida to help hurricane survivors, then on to Northern California to help victims of the October wildfires.
Andrew Enos volunteered with the Red Cross in Texas and Florida during hurricanes and also in California during wildfires. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Andrew Enos works for the American Red Cross collecting blood donations. But the 19-year-old from Brockton, Massachusetts, is also a volunteer who gets nothing but a prepaid expense card to travel to disaster zones for the relief organization.

This fall he traveled to Texas and Florida to help hurricane survivors, and then he went on to Northern California, where he assisted victims of the October wildfires.

Enos tells Robin Young that when he arrived in Florida after Irma, his deployment supervisor at the Red Cross called to say had been promoted to supervisor.

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