22 MAY 13.........On Wednesday morning at 6:00am Rick Caballero, Pat McGrath and myself loaded the new trailer up with water and Gatorade from a neighborhood grocer. .We traveled down I-55 to Bolingbrook and took on a pallet of donated bread from Turano Bakeries. Lisa Melendez of the 10th District and John McKenna of the 11th District collected donations from the generous officers working 1st watch in both districts. With those donations we were able to purchase the water and the Gatorade at a discount from Fair Share Finer Foods in Garfield Ridge.  We were finally on the road by 7:30am and headed for Moore, OK. At 5:30pm we reached Joplin MO. Joplin was ravished two years prior by an EF5 tornado. We found the Joplin Sam's Club right off the expressway and stopped to purchase additional provisions. We brought in flashlights, batteries, Off, baby wipes, peanut butter and jelly. At 8:30pm we finally made it to the main relief point. We met some great voluteers along with a couple of Moore, OK police officers. The one officer went so far as to offer his home to us to spend the night. We had to decline his generous offer since we planned on turning right around to head home. After unloading the provisions we took a ride around the areas that we were able to get in to and the devestation was so surreal. I can not believe that the death toll wasn't in the hundreds.  Well we headed out of Moore around 11:00pm and made it home about 12:30pm........It was a long 30 hours but I will never forget the experience. Thank you to all those who donated so that we could offer a helping hand.

The people of Moore, OK are going to be in need of a lot of essentials in the near future. The Brotherhood is traveling to Moore, OK on Wednesday morning hoping to lend a little hand.