Jackson, Mississippi residents don’t lack clean water; Uniforms-R-Us is stepping up to help.
Here at home in Mobile, one local business is helping out.
Uniforms-R-Us is collecting water bottle donations. They say their goal is to completely fill a tractor trailer with bottles of water over the weekend.There will be a tractor trailer delivering the bottles of water to the citizens of Jackson.“It’s one thing to not have drinking water-- but it’s something else not to have water at all, not even in your fire hydrants or toilets. That has to be a miserable situation.
The tractor trailer will be located at Uniforms-R-Us on Government Boulevard until Sunday, and it will be there from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. The truck will leave early next week.Download the FOX10 Weather App. Get life-saving severe weather warnings and alerts for your location no matter where you are. Available free in the
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