Louisiana Red Cross, Civil Air Patrol partner for upcoming hurricane season [Video]

BATON ROUGE –The American Red Cross of Louisiana and the Louisiana Wing Civil Air Patrol officially signed a disaster relief partnership deal Wednesday morning to allow for faster and better relief across the state when powerful storms hit.

One of the key benefits of the deal is that the Civil Air Patrol units will receive disaster relief training from the Red Cross. In exchange, the Red Cross will also be able to access the CAP’s mapping technology from their planes and drones.

“We have a new system we have now called Waldo, where we can actually work with FEMA. Take pictures of natural disasters and they can stitch this into Google Earth, which will sit there and show what the buildings look like before the disaster and what they look like after the disaster.” Civil Air Patrol’s James Viney said.

The process of creating a partnership between the two organizations …