Fire victims in five central and eastern Kentucky counties will no longer be able to turn to the Red Cross for emergency assistance. There simply isn't enough money, said Katy Sulfridge, executive director of the Daniel Boone chapter of the American Red Cross.

Stanford Chief Kenneth McDaniel lives and works in one of those counties. He's also a board member of the Daniel Boone chapter, which is headquartered in Madison County.

" … They're taken out, they don't have family members they can go to to stay with. The Red Cross has stepped in and clothed them, fed them, given them a roof over their head," he said.

Other counties on the list include Jackson, Rockcastle, Lee and Owsley.

These aren't the best of times for the Daniel Boone chapter, which, after a hacker's work, doesn't even have a working website. However, there is good news on that front, according to executive director Katy Sulfridge.

"I had one gentleman notice our website is under construction and he does that professionally, so he's offering to donate us a brand new website," she said.

And that may help raise funds and volunteers. In the meantime, McDaniel dreads having to break more bad news to the next people who lose all their worldly possessions in a house fire:

"Right now the Red Cross doesn't have anything they can do for you. We're going to have to find other means to try to find somebody to help you. And that's not going to be an easy thing to do because the Red Cross does so much and puts out so much," he said.

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