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News: Roane State EMT student collect good to help those affected by Hurricane Michael

Nov. 16, 2018

By Bob Fowler
Roane State staff writer

The Roane State Basic EMT night class again spearheaded a massive hurricane relief effort - the second in less than a month - and this time it was done quickly with students and faculty at all nine of the college's campuses helping out.

"This effort was driven by my students," Roane State adjunct faculty member Jason Fox said of the effort to help victims of Hurricane Michael, which wreaked havoc on the Florida panhandle.

"It was completely their idea, but the entire college stepped up to donate."

The effort to help Hurricane Michael victims came after the EMT students helped coordinate a relief effort for North Carolina residents in late September in the wake of Hurricane Florence's devastation.

Collection efforts for Hurricane Michael were on a hurry-up schedule, Fox said, because the college's fall break last week reduced the time available to collect items.

Still, he said, "Everyone did very well in that short time."

Nonperishable items ranging from toiletry to canned food, from cleaning supplies to "lots of pet food," were rounded up and delivered by Fox and his wife Kasey on Sunday, Oct. 21, to Panama City - one of the hardest-hit areas.

"I've been a public safety employee for more than 20 years, and I've never seen this type of devastation in one area," Fox said. "Block and concrete buildings were literally torn apart. Large trees were snapped in two like toothpicks."

The EMT class is taught at Roane State's Knox County Center for Health Sciences on Hayfield Road in West Knoxville.

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