[BARC-List] [Fwd: [satlist] SA in Florida Braces for Dennis {01}]

[Dick Doherty]

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Subject: 	[satlist] SA in Florida Braces for Dennis {01}
Date: 	Sun, 10 Jul 2005 13:17:35 EDT
From: 	WW9E at aol.com
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To: 	satlist List Member <ka1tuz at rcn.com>




(TAMPA, FL) As Hurricane Dennis races north towards the Panhandle,
Salvation Army Relief Teams are heading to Tallahassee in preparation for
deployment in the aftermath of Hurricane Dennis.

Salvation Army relief teams along with their mobile feeding units will meet
at the Sam's Club warehouse located at 3221 N. Monroe Street in
Tallahassee, just off I-10 on Sunday, June 10 by 5:00pm. This rallying
point will enable The Salvation Army to be ready to move in to the effected
area once the storm has cleared the Panhandle. Each of the 15 mobile
feeding units meeting in Tallahassee will be stocked to provide 1,500 hot
meals and nourishment to victims and other relief workers on the scene.

"It is a matter of safety at this point," says Kevin Smith, disaster
services director for The Salvation Army in Florida. "We need to be far
enough way to be out of harms way, but close enough to respond quickly once
it is clear to enter the area and begin to set up our operations."

The Salvation Army in Florida has 43 mobile feeding units and various other
support vehicles that will respond , but Smith points out that a half dozen
units are being used in the South Florida area and the rest will be in
route as reinforcements for the relief effort in the next few days.

This is the second time in less than a year that The Salvation Army has
mounted a massive relief effort in the Panhandle. Last year The Salvation
Army spent weeks in the Panhandle in the aftermath of Hurricane Ivan which
took the same path that Hurricane Dennis is now taking. At the height of
the relief operation, nearly 30,000 meals a day were being served by The
Salvation Army from their mobile feeding units.

In addition to Florida's response, 200 mobile feeding units and their crews
are standing by throughout the Southeastern United States ready to respond
at moments notice.

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