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SALT LAKE CITY -- The American Red Cross is helping thousands of people as tornadoes, flooding and wildfires continue to wreak havoc across a large part of the United States.

These latest storms come on the heels of two weeks of deadly weather which has disrupted people's lives from North Dakota to the East Coast. Red Cross disaster teams are working around the clock in the affected areas, providing people with shelter, meals, emotional support and supplies to help with clean-up efforts

In Utah, 11 Red Cross volunteers have been deployed to North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi to assist with relief efforts there. Their duties range from nursing to managing fleets of Emergency Response Vehicles (ERVs).

PLEASANT GROVE, Ala. -- Dozens of tornadoes ripped through the South, flattening homes and businesses and killing at least 248 people in six states in the deadliest outbreak in nearly 40 years.

JACKSON, Ga. -- At least seven people died in the South as fast-moving spring storms packing high winds, hail and lightning blew through the region, uprooting trees and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands, including in metro Atlanta.

The storms were part of a system that cut a wide swath from the Mississippi River across the Southeast to Georgia and the Carolinas on Monday and early Tuesday. Skies were clearing behind the system Tuesday, but tornado watches remained in effect in eastern North and South Carolina as the storms appeared to head out to sea.