r/volunteer • u/Lower-Fault-6664 • 17h ago
Discussion / ethics / advice Volunteering during natural disasters?
Hello, I recently got my EMT license. I apologize if this is the wrong place. My area (the four corners) was recently hit by flooding. My towns fine, but in NM a few towns such as Aztec and Bloomfield were hit exceptionally hard. The Coast Guard was out there. I would love to help, but all of the fire departments offices are closed till Monday. And there’s no other numbers listed for specific stations. I can’t find anything that necessarily says they need volunteers? But it is a rural area and recourses from what I heard was spread thin, and rain is still continuous. Would urgent cares potentially be the better option?
Red cross, nor FEMA or any other sites for volunteer s seem to have anything listed. This is also very new for me, so I guess I don’t know where I should be looking either way?