The Arkansas-Oklahoma division of the Salvation Army has been busy with relief efforts serving those affected by Hurricane Harvey in Texas. According to a media release Saturday, an incident command team, along with multiple feeding units and crews, have been deployed to Corpus Christi to oversee disaster reponse operations in the area. Salvation Army Officers and staff have been deployed from Conway, Fayetteville, Fort Smith, Jonesboro, Pine Bluff and Springdale. Captain Jay Spalding, of the local Salvation Army unit, says a mobile feeding unit from Mountain Home will probably leave for Texas in a couple of weeks.
He says mobilization units are on a rotating schedule and the local Salvation Army was one of the first dispatched to Georgia and North Carolina when Hurricane Matthew hit in 2016.
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Units are also being deployed from Ardmore, Lawton, Oklahoma City and Shawnee, Oklahoma.
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Units are also being deployed from Ardmore, Lawton, Oklahoma City and Shawnee, Oklahoma.
A total of 42 mobile kitchens are headed to forward staging areas in Dallas and San Antonio. Eight of those are from Arkansas and Oklahoma.
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District reponse leadership teams will be positioned in San Antonio, Galveston/Texas City, Houston and Corpus Christi to coordinate the ongoing disaster response.
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In the past relief freight trailers have been parked somewhere in the Twin Lakes Area to donate non- perishables. Spalding says that type of donation isn’t being considered at this point.
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According to Spalding there are four ways to help the Salvation Army disaster relief program to assist the residents of Texas. Online donations are accepted at http://www.salvationarmytexas.org/ways-you-can-help/donate-now/ by mail at The Salvation Army P.O. Box 1959, Atlanta, GA 30301 (make sure Hurricane Harvey is designated on all checks), by phone at 1-800-725-2769 or by texting STORM to 51555 to receive a mobile donation link.
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District reponse leadership teams will be positioned in San Antonio, Galveston/Texas City, Houston and Corpus Christi to coordinate the ongoing disaster response.
Listen:
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In the past relief freight trailers have been parked somewhere in the Twin Lakes Area to donate non- perishables. Spalding says that type of donation isn’t being considered at this point.
Listen:
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According to Spalding there are four ways to help the Salvation Army disaster relief program to assist the residents of Texas. Online donations are accepted at http://www.salvationarmytexas.org/ways-you-can-help/donate-now/ by mail at The Salvation Army P.O. Box 1959, Atlanta, GA 30301 (make sure Hurricane Harvey is designated on all checks), by phone at 1-800-725-2769 or by texting STORM to 51555 to receive a mobile donation link.
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