PHOTO GALLERY Taylors Resident Helping Storm Victims in Gulf Coast

A Taylors man is among the many Red Cross workers who has been deployed to assist families in the aftermath of Hurricane Isaac.

These are some of the photos that Brian Scoles, chief public affairs officer of the Western Carolinas Region of the American Red Cross, has taken since he arrived in Mobile, Ala., on Monday.

Scoles, along with 19 others from the Western Carolinas, have been deployed to the Gulf Coast to help provide thousands of people with a safe, dry place to stay and something to eat.

The Red Cross is focused now on people’s emergency needs on Tuesday night more than 5,200 people stayed in as many as 80 Red Cross or community shelters in six states.

On Thursday, Scoles said via email that he would spend the day with crews out in the field delivering supplies to residents in Bayou La Batre. He said they were expecting a foot of flooding Thursday.

Nearly 2,700 Red Cross volunteers have set up nearly 200 mobile feeding vehicles in Gulf Coast states.

The Red Cross will be there for weeks helping people recover. Donations are needed and may be made online at www.redcross.org, by calling 1-800-RED-CROSS or by texting REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation.