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More Than 2,500 Local Red Cross Volunteers Helping With Isaac Cleanup

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BURLINGTON, Vt. -

Louisiana is still suffering from devastating flooding and needs your help.

Organizations like the American Red Cross help to aid the clean up, including one Vermonter, David May of Jeffersonville, Vt.

Volunteers from Louisiana came to help after Tropical Storm Irene and now Vermonters are giving back.

And it's not just devastating storms that result in more Red Cross volunteers. It's fires and floods that also inspired many right here at home.

"When someone becomes engaged with the Red Cross whether it's in the wake of a large event like Tropical Storm Irene or Isaac more recently, it not only is a tremendous boost to our organization at that time but it builds our local core of volunteers," Doug Bishop, Director of Communications for the Vermont and New Hampshire Red Cross, said. "130 times a year local Red Cross volunteers are responding to apartment fires, floods and other events right here at home."

More than 2,500 local Red Cross volunteers are down in the Gulf right now. Along with 1,500 from all around the country.

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