Santa Rosa, California (Crohn) – The Red Cross in North California is granted every year a female year. This year, he went to Pitts and Yethon, who started volunteering with the Red Cross in 2017. Rob Nespipe visited Kron 4 Witthohn at her home in Santa Rosa to find out what inspired her to return the favor.
When you talk to a resident of Santa Rosa who was living in the city in 2017, he will tell you about their memories of the Tubbs fire. At that time, the fire was the most destructive in the history of California and came within the feet of the front door of Withhn.
“Our street was full of people who were sitting with their trailers, and this was the case, my God, will it come here.”
The fire succeeded in its property, but this was not the case for everyone. Tubbs fire destroyed more than 5,000 homes and killed 22 people.
In the wake of the destruction, I noticed the volunteers who intervened to help her community, specifically the American Red Cross. When she saw an advertisement that the organization was looking for more volunteers, she decided to advance.
“You can come with the skills that come with her from the experience of your life, and there are people from all different life experiences that volunteer in the Red Cross,” Witon said.
Eight years have passed since I took this faith leap and became a volunteer in the Red Cross, and she did not realize the number of people who would help them.
Wathon traveled to Florida to help families during the wake of Hurricane Ian. This is the place where Richard Goldfarb, director of the National Red Cross Command Team in North California. Goldfarb has quickly realized the characteristics of curiosity that makes Witthohn the perfect person to help others in need.
“She always asks questions, and she is always trying to understand her, and I believe that her full view is on how to address a problem and deal with how to build a team and lead a team that comes from a place of modest.”
Withn was published in more than 20 main disasters, including hurricanes, hurricanes, floods and disasters that inspired them to help: forest fires. There, after the fires of the Lahina, parts of the Maoi in Hawaii, and recently, were in southern California, where Palisades and Eaton fires were burned through more than 23,000 acres.
“From the perspective of the Red Cross,” We are like the second respondents after the fire, “Witon said.
She took her career for 30 years as an executive director of marketing and putting them well, and volunteers to respond to disasters, leadership development and customer care. The work that has become a family affairs with her husband Andi Wathon and his son Dini Sigmoun, who also work as volunteers in the Red Cross.
Her family was there on the thirtieth anniversary of the Red Cross in San Francisco, where Petsi was honored as the Red Cross volunteer in the Red Cross 2025.
“You know that I learned that there are humanitarian devices in all of us and that the gift that you can offer to someone by listening and giving them hope is an invaluable gift,” Wathon said.