{"id":6528,"date":"2025-10-18T01:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T01:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/6528\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T01:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T01:11:07","slug":"philadelphia-american-red-cross-worker-heads-to-alaska-for-disaster-relief-after-typhoon-hits-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/6528\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia American Red Cross worker heads to Alaska for disaster relief after typhoon hits coast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lisa McGee is preparing for a trip that will take her thousands of miles away to the other side of the country.<\/p>\n

McGee is a part of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Region of the American Red Cross and is now one of many responding to the disaster zone in Alaska.<\/p>\n

“I am going to help out with some of the initial phases of this emergency operation,” she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

McGee is joining a critical disaster relief operation after the remnants of Typhoon Halong<\/a>\u00a0slammed into the coast last weekend, causing widespread flooding while also leading to mass evacuations<\/a>. More than 1,500 people have lost their homes due to the strong storm, and at least one person was killed.<\/p>\n

“These people lived across 40 villages that were inundated by water<\/a>. Their infrastructure is obsolete at this point. There are no roads, their utilities are down and they lost everything,” McGee said. “This is a situation where they are going to be displaced for the foreseeable future.”<\/p>\n

McGee said the American Red Cross will have a few mega shelters in Anchorage. Adding that one that’s already up and running is helping 2,000 people, and they’re expecting more in the days to come.<\/p>\n

McGee said she’s ready to get to work and is looking forward to making a difference.<\/p>\n

“We become that light in the darkness that leads them to that next step as they navigate their new normal because they’re experiencing circumstances that they didn’t expect,” she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

McGee said she will be in Alaska for at least three weeks or for as long as she’s needed.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lisa McGee is preparing for a trip that will take her thousands of miles away to the other…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5889,69,71,70,5888,5887],"class_list":["post-6528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-alaska","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-red-cross","tag-typhoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}