{"id":424863,"date":"2026-10-11T13:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T13:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/424863\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T13:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T13:38:07","slug":"orlando-salvation-army-to-help-hurricane-isaias-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/424863\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Salvation Army to help Hurricane Isaias survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salvationarmyusa.org\/stories\/the-salvation-army-mobilizes-disaster-response-ahead-of-hurricane-isaias\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Salvation Army team in Orlando prepared to leave Saturday morning for Florida\u2019s Panhandle<\/a>, bringing water, supplies and plans to provide meals to people affected by the hurricane.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, we\u2019re preparing to leave for Panama City, which is a staging area for our eventual trip into Pensacola,\u201d volunteer Steve Holdeman said.<\/p>\n<p>Holdeman has volunteered in disaster relief for about 10 years. He said previous deployments have shown him how important access to food and water can be after a disaster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of the places that we\u2019ve been, the grocery stores are closed. So, any meal, any water that they can get is very much needed and they\u2019re very appreciative of it,\u201d Holdeman said.<\/p>\n<p>The team is taking a rapid response vehicle and a mobile feeding unit. Together, they can provide about 1,500 meals a day, according to Nic Freeman, the Salvation Army\u2019s director of volunteer services.<\/p>\n<p>Crews can prepare meals on the mobile feeding unit or deliver food prepared by other relief organizations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to be providing emotional and spiritual support as well as food services and anything else that\u2019s needed when we are there,\u201d Freeman said.<\/p>\n<p>This is Freeman\u2019s first deployment with the Salvation Army. He said deployments can last up to 14 days, though the exact length of this trip is uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe pride ourselves on doing the most good. And so that means that any time, we have the opportunity to go out and share and support the folks that are in the most need, we go out and do so,\u201d Freeman said.<\/p>\n<p>The Salvation Army plans to work alongside other organizations to help affected communities recover.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am there grateful and honored to serve and hoping that we can make as big an impact as possible,\u201d Freeman said.<\/p>\n<p>The organization is also asking for donations and encourages people to volunteer with their local Salvation Army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 A Salvation Army team in Orlando prepared to leave Saturday morning for Florida\u2019s Panhandle, bringing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[767,167273,274,3949,770,2204,115,1053,1335,768,139,141,140,12166,278,2032,835],"class_list":["post-424863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-app-community","tag-app-hurricane-isaias","tag-app-top-stories","tag-bryanna-howard","tag-community-news","tag-instagram-n13","tag-news","tag-orange","tag-orange-county","tag-orange-county-fl","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-storm-season","tag-top-stories","tag-trending-topics","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}