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Central NC volunteers step up to assist storm damaged southeast

Lending a helping hand.
Volunteers from local organizations are stepping in to help people impacted after deadly tornadoes ripped through the southeast.
A long road ahead before getting ‘back to normal’ in parts of Alabama and Georgia where deadly tornadoes swept across the southeast.
Seeing the wreckage encouraged Zonia Quero-Ziada to step in to help.
“Wherever they send me, I go,” said Quero-Ziada.
She’s deployed to more than 30 disasters across the country with the American Red Cross; This time, focusing her efforts in Macon, Georgia.
“This particular deployment I’ll be working with community partners trying to assess the resources available in the community to work together with us,” said Quero-Ziada.
Volunteers with the Samaritan’s Purse rushed into the storm-torn southeast on Thursday.
Assistant program manager Aaron Richards anticipates staying in Selma, Alabama for about three weeks assisting through ministry and cleanup efforts.
“We come mainly in Jesus’s name. We are here to do disaster cleanup, putting tarps on roofs, and things like that,” said Richards. “We are here for the people.”
Here for the people in time of need, even if it means going outside of the Tar Heel State.
“Today it’s them, tomorrow it may be me or my family or my community,” said Quero-Ziada.
Samaritan’s purse has more than 20 people providing assistance in Georgia and Alabama.
The Red Cross has 11 people on the ground spread out between Georgia and those impacted by relentless storms in California.