Church volunteers help Palm Coast neighbors clean up after the tornado

Volunteers and American Red Cross Disaster Relief Services met at Parkview Church on Oct. 13 to help residents one day after a 115-mph EF2 tornado touched down in the B-Section of Palm Coast.

By Brent Woronoff
| 3:18 p.m. October 13, 2023

Volunteers get ready to lift up panels of a fence knocked down by a tornado that touched down in the B-Section of Palm Coast a day earlier. Photo by Brent Woronoff

American Red Cross Disaster Program Manager Stuart Mendoza arrives at Parkview Church on Oct. 13. Red Cross staff members and volunteers handed out supplies in the B-Section of Palm Coast for the second day in a row. Photo by Brent Woronoff

Volunteers pick up yard debris in the B-Section on Friday, Oct. 13, a day after a tornado touched down. Photo by Brent Woronoff

Volunteers lift up fence panels at a home on Barbera Lane. Photo by Brent Woronoff

Volunteers lift up fence panels to prevent grass from dying underneath where the panels were knocked down. Photo by Brent Woronoff

Parkview Church Operations Pastor Barry Peters gives instructions to over 20 volunteers who gathered at the church before hitting the surrounding neighborhood to help residents clean up their yards a day after a tornado touched down in the B-Section. Photo by Brent Woronoff

Volunteer Cooper Lohse pushes a wheelbarrow down Barbera Lane. Photo by Brent Woronoff

Marc Lohse picks up pine branches at a home in the B-Section on Oct. 13. Photo by Brent Woronoff

Parkview Church Young Adults/Outreach Pastor Trey Warren sweeps a driveway on Barbera Lane a day after a tornado swept through the B-Section of Palm Coast. Photo by Brent Woronoff

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Over 20 volunteers met at Parkview Church on the morning of Oct. 13 to help neighbors clean up debris a day after a 115-mph EF2 tornado touched down in the B-Section of Palm Coast.

Parkview Church members were joined by volunteers from other churches in the community and from Flagler Volunteer Services.

American Red Cross Disaster Relief Services sent two teams to the area to do a detailed damage assessment and hand out gloves, bags, tarps, water and other supplies to residents.

Parkview Church Operations Pastor Barry Peters organized the volunteer crews.

Ryan Simpson, Flagler County’s Emergency Management manager, spoke to volunteers outside the church.

“We came to see how we can support the church and all our community partners,” he said. “It seems like the damage was very isolated, so we’re very blessed about that.”