Don't stop giving.

That's the message from Fayette

County resident Wilma Brewer, 63, back home after more than two weeks

of volunteer work in New York City.

"Man, do they need it

there!" said Brewer, who said she put in 12-hour days helping at

the site of the Sept. 11 disaster. "This thing's going to last a

long time."

Brewer packed her bags soon

after news of the attack on the World Trade Center came out, and arrived

there the day after thinking she would be involved in staffing a mobile

morgue as part of a disaster mortuary rescue operation team.

Having worked 10 years for

the Fulton County Medical Examiner, she is a volunteer in the federally

funded Public United Health Services Organization that renders such services.

"I thought there would

be a need for people who could tape autopsy reports," she said.

But those services, it turned

out, weren't needed.

"The condition of the

bodies was such that it wasn't needed this time," she said. There

were few intact bodies to autopsy or prepare for burial.

"So I helped in other

areas," she said. "You felt good about doing something, whatever

it was."

Brewer found herself joining

support efforts for the army of search, rescue and cleanup crews swarming

over the site of the disaster. In a two-block area cordoned off by police,

the American Red Cross and Salvation Army set up a massive relief station

with row after row of water, drinks, food and other supplies, she said.

She also helped put together

detailed reports on the missing.

"All the help that can

be sent is sorely needed and will certainly be utilized," said Brewer,

who also praised the efforts of local school, civic, business and other

groups raising funds for the relief efforts thus far.

Though the work was "exhausting,"

Brewer said she is drawn to it. "I may go back again in a couple

of weeks," she said.