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New Hyde Park High Students Set Up Shelter

They helped set up a shelter at New Hyde Park High School.

students helped to get a shelter ready in the school's gym for people evacuating from .

Students who are Red Cross volunteers worked on the group's shelter in the morning alongside adult Red Cross volunteers, said Nasira Rafiq, advisor of the school's .

The student group's presidents Shannon Sunny and Ishita Shah "spread the word last night via Facebook and gathered a handful of their peers to dedicate several hours to assist with the set-up," Rafiq said. 

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