Samaritan’s Purse has deployed to devastated areas of Southern California after the Eaton and Palisades fires. We will be assisting homeowners with recovery efforts, serving communities from our two bases of operations. Here are locations and a phone number for homeowners in need of assistance in these areas. Affected Homeowners Please Call: 833-747-1234 Eaton Fire…
Incendios en California: números de contacto para propietarios
Hurricane Dorian Relief Press Kit
Ayuda por el huracán Dorian
Hurricane Dorian Relief Photos
Hurricane Dorian Roundup: Field Hospital Opens, Relief Distributions Ongoing in the Bahamas
Please see a new story on relief sent to the Abacos and another new article on our Emergency Field Hospital in Freeport, Grand Bahama. Please continue regularly visiting samaritanspurse.org for future articles on our Hurricane Dorian response. Our Dorian landing page is also a great resource featuring videos and a slide show. The article below…
Relief Flown to Island Residents Cut Off by Hurricane Dorian
Samaritan’s Purse has established a base of operations in Marsh Harbour—working to bring emergency shelter material, clean water, and critical supplies to families who lost everything. Marsh Harbour, a small town of fewer than 10,000 people in the Abaco Islands of the Bahamas, hit international news as Category 5 Hurricane Dorian made landfall there on…
Recovery Continues One Year After Hurricane Dorian
A year after Hurricane Dorian battered the northern Bahamas, Samaritan’s Purse continues to provide families, churches, and communities with physical relief and hope in Jesus’ Name. Hurricane Dorian was a Category 5 storm with maximum sustained winds of 185 mph when it slammed into the islands of Grand Bahama and the Abacos. The hurricane killed…
Providing a Pipeline for a Community’s New Start
The small fishing village of Sweetings Cay on the eastern end of Grand Bahama island was told to evacuate quickly as Hurricane Dorian tore a path toward them in early September 2019. Dorian had grown into a violent Category 5 storm. The hurricane ripped buildings from their foundations and swept people and belongings out to…
Volunteers Doing the ‘Dirty Work’ to Help Ocracoke Island Homeowners
Philip Howard, 75, stood at his front door and watched as a wall of water from Pamlico Sound rushed down the road toward his house on Ocracoke Island. “The water just kept rising higher and higher and higher, and I thought if it breaches the top points of my fence then I’m going to have…
Work Continues as the Bahamas Recover from Hurricane Dorian
More than 20 feet of seawater flooded the home of Bishop Bert Livingstone Williams, Jr. in September 2019. His son and daughter-in-law ran to the second floor of the house to escape the influx of water, only to be sucked out of the upstairs window into the storm surge. His daughter-in-law can’t swim, so his…