PORTLAND, Maine - Maine Red Cross workers are already in Florida, helping the state with its response to Hurricane Matthew. One of them is Aly Finn, who's currently in Sarasota.
"I'm starting as a shelter worker. So, working in a shelter and basically doing all those things we have to do to meet the needs of the clients," Finn says. "And then I'll probably be switching over to a planning function, which will really give us the time to say, 'How can we mitigate some of these storms in the future? How can we make sure we're more prepared?"
Finn says, for her, hurricane relief in Florida is a personal mission. she began working for the Red Cross there and still has family living in the state.
