Wearing bright red t-shirts and a burning desire to help, a group of 20 Bay Area nurses deployed Tuesday from SFO on a disaster-relief mission to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico.
Part of the Registered Nurse Response Network, the group will join 30 other volunteer nurses in Newark, New Jersey for a chartered flight to San Juan.
The RNRN was formed after Hurricane Katrina and has sent volunteers on humanitarian missions around the world, including to the South Asia tsunami in 2004. They return home in two weeks.
