var icx_publication_id = 18566; var icx_content_id = '1081982'; Click here for reuse options! Volunteers from across the country are helping victims of Hurricane Harvey recover. Watching helplessly as flood waters rose was not an option for Brandon Parker. This Texas refinery worker and member of the United Steelworkers union has a jacked-up Suburban and a friend with a boat. There was no way he was going to let family members,neighbors or strangers drown.
Like Parker, many union members couldn’t sit still through the storm. One drove her tall-riding pickup truck two hours to find baby formula for co-workers rescued from their roof with a newborn. Another used his pickup truck to rescue people whose cars got caught in fast-moving water.
These are among the many workers across Texas and across the United States whose sense of community drove them to reply to the crisis created by Hurricane Harvey.
Parker's most harrowing rescues occurred Sunday, and Aug. 27,when he joined the citizens' armada, the flotilla of boats owned by civilians who drafted themselves to serve as first responders when the catastrophic size of the emergency overwhelmed professionals.
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