Celebrity chef Jose Andres helps Southeast recover from Hurricane Helene

World Central Kitchen has served much than 160,000 blistery meals to residents of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee successful the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, the enactment told Fox News Digital connected Saturday.

"We person 2 main office presently with galore satellites to screen arsenic overmuch crushed arsenic possible," a typical from World Central Kitchen said successful an email.

World Central Kitchen, a U.S.-based nonprofit founded by personage cook Jose Andres, is "serving blistery meals and providing h2o to these affected communities." 

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The nonprofit has utilized 2 helicopters making deliveries and scouting passim the Southeast, they said, successful summation to a big of different sites. 

"We person implicit 85 organisation sites, 50 edifice partners – which includes nutrient trucks – (and) 2 WCK Field Kitchens which are producing implicit 16,000 blistery meals a time each," World Central Kitchen told Fox News Digital. 

World Central Kitchen has mobilized and served much than 100,000 blistery meals to residents of the southeast who were deed by Hurricane Helene. (Courtesy World Central Kitchen)

Additionally, World Central Kitchen has 5 mobile h2o trucks, each with 6,200 gallons, and "volunteers excessively galore to count." 

Since Hurricane Helene, World Central Kitchen has served a full of 169,125 blistery meals, the enactment said.

In Asheville, North Carolina – which was deed peculiarly hard by the tempest – World Central Kitchen is moving with country restaurants to assistance some carnal and motivation recovery. 

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Chef Jose Andres (second from right) was connected the crushed connected Oct. 4 successful North Carolina.  (Courtesy: World Central Kitchen)

"We are moving with restaurants to acceptable up h2o tanks and pumps to get their kitchens cooking again," said the representative. 

"And we've adjacent had a set playing unrecorded euphony astatine our cardinal room here," noted the representative.

Hurricane Helene made landfall successful Florida, noted World Central Kitchen, and "the magnitude of this tempest was felt acold and wide." 

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And contempt being degraded to a tropical tempest by the clip it reached North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, Helene dropped "as overmuch arsenic 20 inches of rainfall successful 24-hour period." 

"The tropical tempest caused what is being called a ‘500 twelvemonth flood’ and swelled rivers, reservoirs which overflowed causing demolition that wiped towns disconnected the look of the map," said the nonprofit. 

Recovery successful the worst-hit areas could instrumentality months, said World Central Kitchen, particularly with harm to the h2o supply.  (Courtesy World Central Kitchen)

These areas, said World Central Kitchen, volition request assistance for a agelong clip owed to the terrible disruptions to infrastructure. 

"Search and rescue is inactive ongoing, and the h2o proviso has been chopped disconnected to galore communities," said the representative.

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"Power is dilatory trickling backmost on, but without a h2o proviso these communities volition not beryllium capable to instrumentality to mean until that is fixed."