Spotlight on north texas
American
Red Cross
Distribution
Facility
When disasters strike, the American Red Cross
springs into action by opening shelters, providing
daily meals and snacks, and distributing clean-up
supplies directly into affected neighborhoods.
Families often say that the Red Cross appears as if
by magic.
It’s not magic. It’s logistics.
The North Texas Region, covering a span of 111 Texas counties, is now home to a new 174,000-squarefoot Disaster Field Supply Center located in Arlington, Texas. The new Arlington location is one of five
large-scale national disaster relief warehouses in
the nation and contains enough supplies to provide
comfort for up to 100,000 Americans.
The most commonly stocked items in the Arlington
warehouse include cots, blankets, comfort kits,
clean-up kits, coolers, tarps, rakes, shovels, work
gloves and food carriers.
When the call comes in after a disaster, Red Cross
specially-trained warehouse volunteers join forces
and load pallets of supplies onto 18-wheelers that
will head into the disaster zone with the items the
Red Cross needs to comfort families for days, weeks
or even months following tornadoes, wildfires,
floods, hurricanes or other life-changing events.
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www.ntc-dfw.org
Winter/Spring 2015