Hurricane Helene is expected to have been downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it reaches Ohio Friday night or early Saturday.

As Hurricane Helene strengthened to a Category 4 Thursday night, volunteers from Northeast Ohio have already been deployed to Florida to help with the storm's aftermath.

Hurricane Helene, a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir Simpson Wind Scale, is just hours away from making a historic landfall in the Big Bend region of Florida. Florida has dealt with plenty of category 4 hurricanes before,