Support our mission here is that some people may not know this, but the red cross is not charged people anything to receive our services, to partake in some of the opportunities we had to help people. he doesn t charge anything. we are able to do that because of financial gifts. if someone is seeing this and they want support, the best way is to make a financial donation. there are three ways to go about doing that. go to redcross.org and make a financial donation. call that 800-733-2767 and make a donation for disaster relief. or if you want an easier way, text hawaii to 90999 and that will make a $10 to support the people impacted by these wildfires. thank you for being there. we re looking at pictures of people coming and donating everything from clothes to toys to food.
In the initial response fema provided urban search and rescue capability, emergency communications resources as well as food, water and shelter items to ensure those who are impacted had everything they needed. as we worked through the recovery operations, the most critical point that we want to stress is getting people registered. we have over 3,000 people who have registered so far and we want to encourage anyone who has been impacted by this to register for fema assistance using our number 1-800-621-3362. they can also use disaster assistance or fema app. we want people to register with the red cross at 1-080-733-2767. this registration will allow people to start that process of recovery. meaning they can get funds, start getting some help in dealing with this disaster. i do want to talk to you about fema, in the past it has been criticized for a slow response, during maria, after that
Story that i encountered yesterday. i was flying and peeking to my flight attendant who said they had a gone two days without hearing from a relative who was caught up in the fire. it was hours before they took off they got that note saying we found them, they are okay. there are so many other stories like that, and the red cross is really trying to help people with reconnection. there are some challenges, there s still major infrastructure down, so cell service, internet, things like that, but we encourage people right now we re asking them to call 1-800-red-cross, 733-2767, and and you have options on this how people get connected to their loved ones, and we can start relaying those messages. molly: you know, you were talking about where you re standing, where this devastation is. there s a hot of inter-island heart there in hawaii. what are the people hawaii doing between island to island to help out there particularly in this devastated community of lahaina? i can t speak to specifically
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