Hurricane Sandy
Volunteers - Local and Nationwide - Rally To Aid Sandy's Victims
People from Maine to Hawaii and all points in between join with local volunteers to restore the shore.
Even before Sandy’s first gusts reached our shores, volunteers from the entire United States were on their way to southern Ocean County and all East Coast areas soon to be devastated. Many of them are still here or have rotated out to be replaced by others from their organizations. Members of the Fraternal Order of Police had arrived from as far away as Missouri and Louisiana at the Long Beach Township Municipal Complex. They set up a kitchen and for the next two weeks as the building served as the command center for LBI’s Emergency Management Operations and the National Guard, they fed the police, first responders, National Guard and EOC personnel. As the storm passed, more FOP members fanned out with cleaning supplies, equipment and …
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foggyworld
3:48 pm on Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Thank you so much for this information because it is among the most helpful and hopeful thing I have read and I will pass it on to many of my neighbors who no longer are permitted to live in their devastated homes. Thank you again. more ›