INDIANA – The Salvation Army is responding in communities across northwestern and east-central Indiana as record power outages and floods create hazardous conditions for tens of thousands of Hoosiers. Emergency Disaster Services (EDS) teams have been deployed and are providing food, hydration, shelter, and other emergency assistance to impacted residents.
LAKE COUNTY
The August 11 storms left most Lake County residents without power, including The Salvation Army’s three locations in Hammond, East Chicago, and Gary. In spite of these outages, the East Chicago corps has continued to serve the public with meals throughout the week and is working with Strack and Van Til and other community partners to get food distributed from the corps’ location at 513 W. Chicago Avenue. The most current distribution information can be found on Facebook at facebook.com/SalvationArmyEastChicago.
Additional food box distributions will be in place by Wednesday at the Gary-Merrillville corps, located at 4800 Harrison Street in Gary. Updates regarding service in the Gary area will be posted on Facebook at facebook.com/TSAGaryMerrillville…