Emotions running high among evacuees<\/p>\n
Ron Cartmell, a major with the Salvation Army, has been distributing coffee, water and other supplies outside the Emergency Support Services reception centre in Vernon.<\/p>\n
He said emotions are running high, with some evacuees getting the devastating news their homes are gone, while others are dealing with the anxiety of not knowing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Sometimes you pass out a bottle of water and all of a sudden the tears come, and they just need somebody to tell their story to,” Cartmell told CBC News.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“But it is challenging. Especially the uncertainty. You know, is my house there? When do I get to go back? When do I at least find out for sure? So, at least emotionally, it’s just exhausting.”<\/p>\n
Cartmell said people have been dropping off supplies like water and granola bars, but his team has been overwhelmed and doesn’t have the resources to take any more donations.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He said the best way people can help is by making financial donations, so groups can put the money where it’s most useful. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emotions running high among evacuees Ron Cartmell, a major with the Salvation Army, has been distributing coffee, water…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-846116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}