Rapid Response Field Kitchen prepares thousands of meals for Florida’s Big Bend
WCK is serving hot meals and bringing hope to communities in need throughout Florida’s Big Bend after staging in Tallahassee a week ahead of Hurricane Helene’s landfall. Preparations were key to a quick response–allowing WCK’s Relief Team to provide thousands of sandwiches and hot meals immediately after Helene passed Florida’s coastal communities and headed north.
Hurricane Helene put our Rapid Response Field Kitchen–a custom designed, all-terrain vehicle capable of transporting up to 1,500 sandwiches and enough food and equipment to prepare 3,000 meals–to the test for the third time in just a few months. This is the first hurricane season WCK teams have utilized the RRFK and it made an immediate impact.
In Florida, meals prepared using the RRFK were flown by helicopter to hard hit areas where WCK volunteers delivered the food by foot and by using trucks, SUV’s, and ATV’s. The owners and staff of MacRae’s Bait and Tackle in Homosassa, said the food was just what they needed to move forward in their recovery work.
Once WCK food truck and restaurant partners were able to start cooking hot meals in the Big Bend, our RRFK packed up and headed north where it is now a key part of our ability to provide thousands of meals a day for communities in Asheville, NC.
Help us support families recovering from Hurricane Helene.
