Andrew Enos was home in Brockton for less than two days before he flew south again to help with another hurricane.
Enos, 19, had been in Texas for about two weeks after Hurricane Harvey made landfall,working in shelters first in Yorktown and later in Houston, as a Red Cross volunteer.
“I landed back home Sunday night at 7 o’clock, and I got the call for Florida Monday at 5,’’ Enos said.
He is one of about 20 Red Cross of Massachusetts volunteers now stationed in Florida and Georgia, by spokesman Jeff Hall’s estimate. Hall said many of them stretch between Orlando and Macon, Ga., hunkering down for Hurricane Irma’s continental landfall.
Enos arrived in Orlando Tuesday and drove to Miami the following day. By the time he got to North Miami Senior High School Wednesday, the at-capacity shelter was in dire need of help.
“When I landed, I came out here as a service associate, so just as a regular helper,’’ Enos said. “When I landed, they promoted me to supervisor, and when I got to the shelter, they promoted me to manager immediately, because they needed somebody to run the shelter.’’
Enos estimated that about 930 people, including security and medical personnel, were in the shelter Saturday morning,. Only four Red Cross service associates were working with Enos, and most of the shelters in the area were filled.
“I honestly couldn’t do it without my team,’’ Enos said. “They’ve been great. We’ve all roughly gotten two hours of sleep per day. We’re doing great.’’
The Red Cross isn’t the only Massachusetts organization to step up in Irma’s wake.
Massachusetts Task Force 1 rescue team, based in Beverly, has 19 volunteers deployed across Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Florida, according to assistant program manager Anita Arnum.
Most of the volunteers have gone to San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, where Irma has caused catastrophic damage. Five are now in Florida, which is in the midst of evacuating more than 6 million residents.
“Right now, they’re just standing by, waiting to find out what their mission is,’’ Arnum said of the team in Florida. “They’ve been released from us. They’re doing what they’re supposed to do as far as search and rescue goes.’’
In Massachusetts, the task force has an 80-member team and equipment on standby, Arnum said. If the Federal Emergency Management Agency calls on them, they are ready to roll.
About 100 Eversource employees from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Connecticut are also heading south. According to an Eversource statement, a convoy of crews, bucket trucks, and equipment departed from Westwood on Saturday morning.
Once they complete the trip down the East Coast, the workers will help sister utilities restore power, the statement said. Call-center representatives are also set to remotely help Tampa Electric Co. answer outage phone calls.
Massachusetts General Hospital staff members are already in the southern United States, according to a hospital statement. On Wednesday, two physicians, five nurses, one nurse anesthetist, one physician’s assistant, a social worker, and a paramedic traveled to Georgia, where they had been on alert. On Saturday, the 11-person team departed for Florida, said hospital spokeswoman Michelle Marcella.
In Houston, a six-clinician team from Mass General has been assisting Project Hope and Americares at the San Jose Clinic, according to the hospital statement.
Rowan Walrath can be reached at rowan.walrath@globe.com.
