Red Cross volunteers from the Wichita area are heading to Florida to help with the response to Hurricane Ian.
Husband and wife disaster responders Pat and Lori Loney are driving a Red Cross emergency response vehicle roughly 20 hours from Wichita to Florida. The couple, who live in Derby, recently volunteered following the Andover tornado.
The American Red Cross already has more than 500 trained disaster workers on the ground ahead of Ian's landfall as a category 4 hurricane.
Before the storm, the Red Cross moved truckloads of additional cots, blankets and comfort kits, along with tens of thousands of relief supplies into the region to be prepared to help as many as 60,000 people.
Dozens of emergency response vehicles are pre-positioned across the state, and additional resources are on the way.