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Hundreds of Sandy volunteers now living on USS Wright

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    Anna Kooiman reports from Staten Island, New York

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Will hundreds of volunteers who rushed to New York after -- -- sandy are settling into their home away from home.

When they're not helping with the recovery effort red cross and -- members are recuperating on the USS right.

The ship is docked on Staten Island and is equipped with sleeping quarters and the common area.

And a -- is live yeah I -- to give us an inside look hi -- Eight.

In the aftermath of super storm -- has proven to be a tall order and that's where this 600 foot long ship comes -- The SS right it's now home away from home for a couple hundred volunteers from the American Red Cross.

And -- -- -- these volunteers they're staying together they're eating the other doing their laundry playing games and watching sports together but it's all -- a cramped.

Get patriotic living quarters.

And we get ready to that FEMA corps volunteers they are Manning the 27 disaster recovery -- still set up in the tristate area many from -- -- are young even just right out of high school.

It's an interesting dynamic as many of the Red Cross volunteers are much older retired health care workers.

Volunteering in -- living can be trying being around storm victims and devastation at times is emotionally exhausting.

That I'm not able to get them -- media.

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- As it -- different from the right I'm wearing like -- -- he's alive and demoralize.

In a living quarters are less than luxurious for example the bunk beds.

Are stacked four high.

Also big adventure.

I think that's a part of why.

So many others.

Find this really is because -- it's not only helping people putted from.

That's that's that's very satisfying.

I -- they call these bunk beds.

Coffins because they're only eighteen inches apart stacked four -- it's it's wild wolf.

-- of course -- -- wrapping up their duties in the next week or so the ship is going to be leaving in a couple of weeks in the American Red Cross is currently working on finding a new area new barracks area for their volunteers back to you.

In a climate thank you so much and so much thanks to the volunteers.

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