Tim Reichel, of North Canton, volunteered at the American Red Cross to help Hurricane Katrina victims in 2005.

He's been to dozens of other natural disaster sites since.

A decade ago, the Red Cross hired him as a community disaster services manager.

CANTON – Tim Reichel's good deed plunged him into volunteerism for the American Red Cross – then ultimately into a career.

It all started with Hurricane Katrina. It was late on a Sunday night, Aug. 28, 2005. Probably into the wee hours of Monday morning. Inside his North Canton home, then-48-year-old Reichel couldn't take his eyes off of a Fox News TV broadcaster, reporting from New Orleans.

"It was Shepard Smith," Reichel recalled. "He's in the French Quarter and the sky is pitch black."

Reichel had watched and read about natural disas

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