Insurance Tents, Food Camps Set Up for Tornado Victims - Alicia Acuna

MOORE, Oklahoma - People are still picking up the pieces from a massive tornado in Moore, Oklahoma. Now insurance companies are coming in to help the victims start a new life. The First Baptist Church of Moore is now home to an insurance and recovery city. An estimated 2 acres, where those who lost homes and much more, check in with FEMA and if needed, get something to eat. Volunteers from the Oklahoma Baptist Disaster Relief providing 95% of the Red Cross' meals. We are finding camps like this all over the area, this is just one by an insurance company and they are providing food and drinks for people. We talked to one guy from Farmers Insurance Group. He said they don't even know if these guys are their customers, but people need to eat at this time so that isn't a problem. If you come over you can see how they have things set up. They have the triage unit where they first get folks settled and get them to start filling out paperwork, and then they can start getting ready to go into meet with the insurance agents here. Once they get in there that is when they can start filling out their claims, but because this is such an immediate situation, the good news is all of these folks will likely leave with an ATM card of sort, some sort of cash in hand to help them with the immediate need they have. Additionally, in this area, we also found a way to rent a car because a lot of people as you know lost their vehicles. These ATM vans are just yards away from the insurance company tents. So, folks may not have a home to return to. They can begin the process of getting there.

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