The teams arrived this past weekend and the Texas Baptist Men says they’ve already received hundreds of requests from families needing help.
The group said 30 more volunteers are helping families in Colorado recover anything salvageable from their destroyed homes.Teams of volunteers with the Texas Baptist Men are in Colorado helping families after wildfires devastated hundreds of homes.
On the heels of several volunteers just coming home after weeks of helping with tornado cleanup in Kentucky, the work has not stopped for the Texas Baptist Men. The group said 30 more volunteers are helping families in Colorado recover anything salvageable from their destroyed homes. "There's not a lot. You might come out of a home with a five-gallon bucket of items for them. We've, you know, we've had a little challenge of even taking step letters to crawl down, get down into their basements," Wells said.
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