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Oceanside residents welcome mold cleanup crew

Americorps crew member William Burks, a volunteer from

Photo credit: Newsday / J. Conrad Williams, Jr. | Americorps crew member William Burks, a volunteer from St. Louis, MO, cleans mold from a home in Oceanside that was affected by superstorm Sandy. (Jan. 10, 2013)

Oceanside resident Christina Salazar received some welcome visitors Thursday.

They came in the form of a mold cleanup crew -- an AmeriCorps emergency response team of six from Missouri and Washington state, trained to travel the country, working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, to help communities get a jump on recovery after disasters.

Salazar, 24, lives on Morrow Road...

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