Toyota Donates Electric Cars To American Red Cross L.A. Region
Toyota has donated five hydrogen-fueled electric vehicles to the American Red Cross Los Angeles Region in part of a new service initiative to promote climate change prevention.
DriveH2 is a new initiative by Energy Independence Now, a nonprofit that promotes the benefits of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles. The vehicles donated by the initiative will service the Red Cross’s blood services and disaster fleet that respond and provide shelter and resources to affected communities.
The fleet also helps to transport blood between collection drives and the health providers. In the past year, L.A. Region Red Crossers drove more than 104,500 miles.
partners and identify additional facilities we can open. we want to make sure the facilities are safe places for people to weather the storm as they come through. as the shelters fill up, we continue to be in close con b contact. we were putting red crossers who had flown into orlando into cars, sending them down to west palm beach and further areas south so we could open additional helters as the need continues to grow. red crosser, what does that mean? volunteers or other experts you work with? they are. they re volunteers who are willing to raise their hand, get on a plane and spen two weeks away from their family in a disaster-impacted community just to help the local residents here in florida. so far we ve got 550 that have flown in across the u.s. to help us. and we have another 400 that are already on their way.
trying to get out here, preservation of human life. we ve been given the information the same way as anybody else has. just catch us as you can. we got out here as quickly as we could. thank you for being here. you have the appreciation of the nation for being out here on day seven. neil, this is an active rescue. we re going to continues to monitor this situation here in guy, texas and try to stay out of the way of the authorities because they still have a job to do seven days in, into this devastating story. neil? thanks, griff. griff jenkins. it s 45,000. that s how many people are in shelters in texas and louisiana. red cross spokesman tony briggs on the latest there. very good to have you. thanks for taking your time. a lot of people that need a lot of help. how is it going? it s going really great, neil. we ve had more than 2,000 red