September 15, 2008 New Englanders lend helping hand to Ike victims Play video

(NECN: Josh Brogadir, Cambridge, Mass.) - Local volunteers are in Texas, helping to provide emergency services for survivors and rescue workers.

Emergency crews are scouring the hardest hit areas of Southeastern Texas where Hurricane Ike left little intact along the coast. Rescuers are searching for survivors and assessing the damage.

Thousands of people stood in long lines for ice and fresh water. Reports are that three million people are still without power, and that it could take a month to get it back in many places. Assisting in the relief effort are about 100 Red Cross volunteers from around New England -- some of them from the Mass Bay Chapter in Cambridge, who have been re-deployed from Louisiana to Texas.

Associate Director of Disaster Services, Nick Hambridge, says the Red Cross is trying to recruit some new volunteers to go down and help.

If you would like to help, please visit: www.redcross.orgor call: (800) RED-CROSS.