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Volunteer honored for disaster-response work
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Freeman stands in a flooded Colombian village alongside a small paddle boat he used to transport the box and supplies. The paddle boat was used to bridge the gap from a large boat docked in the flooded river to trucks that would deliver the boxes to families.
When Mike Freeman hears about a disaster on the news, he listens with more than the usual interest. As a member of ShelterBox USA’s response team, Freeman, a Gainesville resident and retired Episcopal priest, is on 48-hour notice to respond to disasters after they occur anywhere in the world. Most of the disasters he responds to however, are never shown on TV. “Unless it’s a Haiti or something like it, doesn’t make the news over here,” Freeman said.