New Response Truck to Assist at Kentucky Natural Disasters

The Kentucky Fraternal Order of Police has a brand new response truck to deploy groups to pure disasters.

The truck, trailer and tools will enable meal preparation for first responders on the scene and guarantee enough entry to meals, water and different help, WBKO-TV in Bowling Inexperienced reported. The truck was unveiled final week in Lexington.

The truck was paid for with a $125,000 donation from Burning Barrel Ability Video games, powered by Tempo-O-Matic. Tempo-O-Matic and Burning Barrel, its Kentucky distributor, have donated to charities resembling volunteer hearth departments, the American Legion, church buildings and different nonprofits, together with catastrophe aid, since launching operations simply over a 12 months in the past, the station mentioned.

Former College of Kentucky and NFL participant Tim Sofa additionally attended the disclosing. His philanthropic efforts have targeted on catastrophe aid response.

“Communities and companies coming collectively to make significant affect is how we are able to actually make a distinction,” Sofa mentioned.

Kentucky has seen its share of pure disasters within the final 12 months, together with tornadoes within the southwest and flooding within the east.

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