Alabama Baptists received lots of help with their disaster relief efforts in the days following the April 27 tornadoes. Volunteers organized into 39 cleanup recovery units and worked all over North Alabama. Teams from Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Michigan joined them.
Alabama, Kentucky, Florida, Texas and South Carolina also provided feeding units in Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, Rainsville, Double Springs and Limestone County. Ten shower units were also provided in Jefferson, Tuscaloosa, Walker, Franklin, St. Clair, Calhoun and DeKalb counties.
In all, 57 disaster relief units and more than 500 volunteers were on the ground at press time. Many Alabama Baptist churches joined the work by serving meals, collecting and distributing goods and housing those displaced by the storms.
The death toll in Alabama continued to rise. At press time, 250 deaths had been reported in the state. (TAB)
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