How to find or provide disaster relief | Community Spirit

The road to recovery for Alabamians affected by the April 27 tornadoes may be long, but the list of people who want to help out in the disaster relief efforts is just as lengthy. We've been overwhelmed with the amount of phone calls, emails, Tweets and Facebook postings about ways folks are wanting to help out their neighbors who have been affected by the storms. We're still  in the process of organizing all of the info our viewers have sent in, and to help make things a little easier we've divided it up by region into three separate lists of ways people can find help and provide help to those in need.

East Alabama: how to find or provide disaster relief

• covers the needs and relief efforts in Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Coosa, Etowah, Talladega, and St. Claircounties.

Central Alabama: how to find or provide disaster relief

• covers the needs and relief efforts in Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Cullman, Jefferson and Shelby counties.

West Alabama: how to find or provide disaster relief

• covers the needs and relief efforts in Fayette, Greene, Hale, Marion, Pickens, Tuscaloosa, Walker and Winston counties.

If you want to add a donation drop-off location, volunteer opportunity or a list of the current needs in your area, click on the story above that covers your community and add it in the comments section at the bottom of the story. You can also send it in an email to web@wbrc.com, call us at 205-583-4321 or 1-877-FOX6-SOS, post it on our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/myfoxal) or send it to our Twitter account @myfoxal. Please include location information as well as a contact name and phone number or email address.

We've also listed everything that appears on the ticker at the bottom of our screen here: http://www.myfoxclosings.com/closings.html, which includes information about schools, insurance agency help locations, volunteer opportunies and places to drop off donations.

For more information, check out these links:

Road to Recovery: a central location for information on how receive relief or donate to Alabama's recovery

The Governor's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives: information from the Alabama government on relief funds, FEMA support and volunteering

Cries for help--viewers asking for assistance

Mobile claims operations for major insurance companies

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