By Blake Haas

NORMAL – As the cleanup effort continues from Hurricane Ian in Florida, the Midwest Food Bank is sending supplies to those in need.

“We have sent out a couple of loads of food that have gone directly to our sister location in Ft. Myers,” Tara Ingham, Executive Director at the food bank, told WJBC. “One of our ten United States locations of Midwest Food Bank is located at Ft. Myers, and right off the bat, they needed immediate help with food relief to help the people in their local community as well as the food pantries they normally support.”

Luckily, the nonprofit’s location in Ft. Myers was not destroyed by Hurricane Ian, but power was recently restored after a prolonged outage.

“When you think about a big Hurricane and all of a sudden being without power in a very humid climate, you’re going to be facing a lot of mold damage and the weeks and months to come, unfortunately,” added Ingham. “And so cleaning supplies are a big need, and we were able to help with that through somebody cares (a partner organization).”

On Monday evening, around 120 people in Florida were presumed dead from Hurricane Ian.

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