Thousands Seek Aid At Oklahoma Emergency Shelters

On Saturday about 3,000 people stayed at Oklahoma emergency aid shelters and made use of the feeding and warming centers opened due to the winter storm.

Sunday, January 31st 2010, 2:38 pm

By: News 9


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OKLAHOMA CITY -- In the wake of the marathon winter storm that blanketed the state, thousands of Oklahomans made use of emergency shelters and aid. On Saturday, about 3,000 people stayed at the shelters and made use of the feeding and warming centers opened due to the winter storm, according to the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management.

The following locations remain open: 

Shelters

Ada – Lazer Zone Family Fun Center, 14601 CR 3544
Altus – First Baptist Church, 300 N. Main
Altus – Altus Community Center, 401 Falcon Road
Anadarko -- First Baptist Church, 700 Pettree
Apache – Clark Community Center, 301 E. Evans Street
Asher -- First Baptist Church, 109 E. Main Street
Brindle – Brindle Corner, 20107 E. Robinson Hwy 9
Canton -- Canton Town Hall, 207 N. Garfield
Carnegie – First Assembly of God Church, 715 E. Oklahoma
Carnegie – Kiowa Complex, 100 Kiowa Way
Carnegie -- Carnegie Elementary School, 202 West 4th St.
Chickasha - Grady County Fairgrounds, 500 East Choctaw
Concho -- Concho Community Hall, 200 Wolf Robe Circle
Cyril – Cyril Senior Center, 3 Ohio St
Duncan - Stephens County Fairgrounds, 2002 S 13th Street
Elgin – Elgin Fire Department, 7892 US Highway 277
Elmore City – First Baptist Church, 107 S Texas Ave.
Geary – Geary Community Center
Granite – Granite Public School, 206 W. Parker
Hobart - First Methodist Church, 201 S. Washington
Hollis -- Hollis Civic Center, 208 W. Jones
Lawton – Comanche Tribe Elder Center, 1107 SW H Ave
Lawton – Comanche Nation College, 1608 SW 9th
Lawton – Hunting Horse Methodist, SW 25th & E Ave.
Lawton -- Cameron Baptist Church, 2621 SW C Ave.
Lindsay -- Calvary Baptist Church, 5th and Chickasaw
Mangum - Church of New Beginnings, 408 North Tittle Ave.
Maysville – First Baptist Church, 300 Ripley Street
Pauls Valley – Garvin County Fair Barn, 1401 N Willow
Purcell -- Multi-Purpose Center, 1400 Chandler Rd
Roosevelt – First Baptist Church,132 Frederick
Rush Springs – Fire Department, 110 N. 3rd
Snyder – First Baptist Church, 729 E St
Seiling -- Community Building
Tipton – First Baptist Church, 300 East Davis Ave
Watonga – Watonga Community Center
Watonga – Watonga Cheyenne-Arapaho Community Center

Warming Centers

Anadarko – First Baptist Church, 700 Petree
Blanchard – Telephone Building, 101 E Veteran's Memorial Hwy
El Dorado -- El Dorado Community Center, 514 W. Main
El Dorado -- El Dorado School, 116 N. 7th
Hobart -- First United Methodist, 201 S. Washington
McAlester – Salvation Army Office, 400 N. A Street
Seminole – Seminole City Hall, 420 Reid Street
Woodward -- Woodward American Red Cross Chapter, 1209 Ninth Street
Wynnewood - First Baptist Church, 1515 E. Robert S. Kerr Blvd.

An open warming center is capable of turning into a shelter at any time if officials determine a need for overnight sheltering.

The American Red Cross remains ready to open more shelters as needed and currently has additional capacity in the shelters that are open. For more shelter information, contact the Red Cross at (888) 405-9543.

The Salvation Army continues to assist at the Grady County Fairgrounds shelter in Chickasha, where they are providing supervision and all meals. In Cyril at the Senior Center they are providing all meals as well. In Altus, they continue to provide meals to city, utility workers and first responders.

The Oklahoma Department of Human Services is supplying some shelters with USDA food commodities.

Oklahoma Baptist Disaster Relief is supporting the shelters with feeding sites.

On Monday, their Baptist Chainsaw groups will begin taking requests for clearing large trees from individual homes. To request assistance call: 405-388-6912, 405-496-1196 or 405-443-7583. The Baptist priorities of assistance are elderly (who needs assistance), single women with children and families with heads of households on military duty overseas.

FEMA is providing 13 trucks of water, meals ready to eat (MREs) and cots for use in shelters and to support response personnel. The supplies are scheduled to arrive in the state today.

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