Trump Donates $1m of His Personal Money to Harricane Harvey Relief

American President Donald Trump will pledge one million dollars of his own money to relief efforts for Hurricane Harvey, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said on Thursday.

“I am happy to tell you that he (Trump) would like to join in the efforts that a lot of the people that we have seen across this country do.

“He is pledging one million dollars of personal money to the fund,” Sanders told reporters at a White House briefing.

More than 4,500 people and 113 pets stranded by Hurricane Harvey have been rescued by the U.S. special flood response teams this week, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) said.

The Coast Guard said in a statement issued on Thursday that it had deployed assets and resources from across the country to create a sustainable response force.

“Currently, there are 33 Coast Guard helicopters and nine Coast Guard Flood Punt Teams, with 12 shallow-draft vessels capable of operating in flooded urban areas, which helped in rescuing the 4,500 who were in peril.

“On Wednesday alone, Punt Teams took more than 940 people in the Houston, Texas area to safety,’’ it said.

SERVPRO a cleanup and restoration works franchiser in based in the U.S. and Canada had mobilised some 9,000 personnel from across the U.S. to respond to the aftermath of the tropical cyclone Harvey.

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