A nonprofit served hot meals to help Floridians recovering from Idalia, which made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane in the Big Bend region of the state.
a day for hundreds of emergency personnel and two meals a day for locals who have been displaced by the storm. They also plan to prepare meals for support volunteers who come in to help clean up the hard-hit areas.
The team prepared and served hot meals on-site at Suwannee Middle School, in Live Oak. However, Mercy Chefs and other local volunteers also delivered the prepared meals to other areas in the state using their fleet of mobile kitchens and support vehicles. The nonprofit also plans to partner with the National Guard, which will also help distribute Mercy Chefs meals to victims in hard-to-reach areas, including people who are trapped inside their homes.Overall, they have the capacity to serve upward of 15, 000 meals a day but LeBlanc said they likely won't have that kind of demand.
"We’re ready to show individuals hope in the form of a meal," LeBlanc said. "Our mission is to just go feed people, and that’s what we plan to do in Florida."
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