Above, five intensive care beds, part of the 32-bed Samaritan's Purse Emergency Field Hospital, are set up in one of the University of Mississippi Medical Center's parking garages in Jackson, Miss. Associated PressRight, Mel Musulin of Forward Township serves as a logistics specialist for the National Disaster Medical Service team Pennsylvania 1. Similar to those who serve in the National Guard and other aid agencies, Musulin gets deployed during a catastrophe. submitted photo

A local man has left home more than ever to respond to greater needs.

“You've got COVID, and then you've got mother nature,” said Mel Musulin of Forward Township. “We also have hurricanes coming. They're about to hit too, so you have to be ready for that.”

Musulin serves as a logistics specialist for the National Disaster Medical Service team Pennsylvania 1, which falls under the umbrella of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Similar to those who serve in the National Guard and other aid agencies, Musulin gets deployed during a catastrophe. He said in the past he would be deployed about once every two years.

“I've been out five times in a year and a half,” he said.

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