Four more Northland Red Cross volunteers have been sent to earthquake struck Kaikoura to help with disaster relief work.
Squad leader Clint Sirl and Eugene Urlich, Pania Slade and Rene Kalkoff flew out of Whangarei yesterday morning for a six-day deployment to join hundreds of volunteers already on the ground.
On Friday, Northland Red Cross volunteers Steve Harwood and Victoria Randall flew out to Christchurch while two Northland Civil Defence workers, Susan Botting and Kim Abbott, left before the duo to help out in Wellington and Christchurch respectively.
Red Cross Northland community services' manager Nancy Kareroa-Yorke said the organisation was thankful to the families and employers of the volunteers for allowing them to respond so quickly.
She said New Zealand Red Cross was often seen as an international organisation but the deployments since last week were a great example of the international humanitarian organisation helping communities in need at home.