United Cajun Navy regional commander Kevin LaFond is from Gulf Shores, Alabama, but his mission takes him wherever disaster strikes.

The United Cajun Navy is a group of volunteers that formed during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It became an actual nonprofit organization approximately a decade ago.

“And now, we’ve got a 200,000-square foot warehouse in Baton Rouge (Louisiana) that we have relief supplies in to respond to any kind of disaster anywhere around the country, with chapters in three different countries around the world,” said LaFond.

A specialized team of United Cajun Navy volunteers responded to the Texas Hill Country on the Fourth of July when the Guadalupe River flooded.

“Divers, dogs, boats, fast water people, people with tracking skills, people with regular search and rescu

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