It’s been a very active few weeks of weather across the South, and Mark Wakefield, state disaster relief strategist, said teams are still working in some places.
A team of 17 Alabama Baptists deployed April 1 to Rolling Fork, Mississippi, with a mass feeding unit. Wakefield said Arkansas Baptists had been filling that need since a March 24 tornado killed at least 23 people there, but when their own state was hit by deadly tornadoes on March 31, they pulled out to help there.
Quick response
“The folks really came through,” Wakefield said of the Alabama Baptist volunteers who responded to the call to deploy in less than a day. “It means a lot to the town for them to be there.”
Teams are also still hard at work in the Florence area cleaning up from a tornado that hit the same night as the Rolling Fork tornado.
John Hayes, the white cap leader there, said they were nearing 150 jobs completed as of April 7.
“Everything’s going good up here; we’re turning out a lot of work and still getting a lot of work,” he said. “We have 50 to 60 people working every day plus drive-in support too.”
Wakefield and Hayes expected both locations would be finished with most of the work by Easter weekend.
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