Anchorage opens central donation center for flood victims
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Anchorage now has a central donation site to help victims of former Typhoon Halong , located at 1120 East 1st Avenue, in the former Chugach Electric warehouse. It is open from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, seven days a week.
The center, which opened to the public on Tuesday, is operated by the volunteer group Team Rubicon. Rubicon Communications Manager Thomas Brown said the donation center came at the request of the State Emergency Operations Center, as well as the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. The center has been working with other partners who were helping flood victims. Brown said what is needed changes daily, but the group will accept almost anything as long as it’s new, including clothes, diapers, hygiene products, duffle bags and more. He promised that whatever people donate will be put to good use. “The need that we are hearing on the ground right now is for boots, large and small sizes,” he said. “Clothing of all sorts, specifically large sizes, and fuzzy comfortable blankets, something to keep them warm and comfortable.” Brown said the center is not accepting food donations and encouraged people to bring those to the Food Bank of Alaska. Ryan Lang, a Public Affairs worker for the Red Cross, said the organization was also preparing to offer financial assistance to flood victims. “The American Red Cross is working on that process as quickly as we can with other partners and financial donors to get these residents exactly what they need in terms of financial assistance, individual assistance,” he said. “And there are a lot of residents who need it and we are working as quickly as possible to get that done, hopefully within the next few days.” Lang said caseworkers are working with people at the shelters to determine their needs and get them connected to assistance.‘We started drifting away and going in circles’: Descriptions of homes being lifted and carried away with people inside‘I tried not to cry’: Evacuee parents watch students head off to Anchorage Schools for the first time this weekWet & windy along southern coasts
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