A local Red Cross volunteer is headed to Virginia to help the families who lost loved ones in the Virgina Tech massacre.

Lee Roman is part of the Red Cross’s Critcal ResponseTeam and this won't be the first mass casuality disaster she's helped out with.

She went to Oklahoma City following the bombing there in 1995, then it was the World Trade Center Attack in 2001 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

"It's very difficult, my first experience was the Oklahoma City bombing, I spent 3 weeks arranging funerals and I thought it was something when I got the assignment that I wouldn't be able to do," Roman said.

But now, 12 years later she's faced with the same challenge again, this time in Virgina. She’ll be assisting the families with funeral arrangements and transporting of remains and it's thinking about those 32 lives that were lost that troubles Lee even more.

"It's hard to comprehend that many young productive future leaders of our country are gone and I have children of my own, young adults and you relate to them," she said.

And so Saturday morning Lee will leave her life in Colorado Springs behind and head east to a disaster unlike anything she's experienced before, where she'll do her best to comfort grieving families.

"Whatever needs to be done, we're there to do."

Lee is the only volunteer from the Front Range that's headed to Virgina. There she will join 30 others from all over the country, most of whom will be Mental Health professionals.