Oklahoma recovery: How you can help

HOW YOU CAN HELP: If you’re unsure how or where to give to help those devastated by the Oklahoma tornado, the Jersey Shore-based group created to help first responders after Hurricane Sandy is collecting key items for two upcoming deliveries directly to the worst-affected area.

Jerry DeMarco

05/21/2013 2:58 p.m.

Immediate EMS and Fire Supplies “wants to pay it forward to Oklahoma for all the help we received through Sandy from people and groups across the country,” said Nadine Nicastro Demczyszyn, who, with her husband, Rich, operate the ongoing mercy mission.

Those groups, she said, included the Oklahoma Disaster Relief, “which was here only a few days after Sandy to help us.”

Donations will be accepted through May 26, said the Demczyszyns, both former Bergen County residents who now live in Jackson, NJ.

Deliveries will be made on Thursday and next Tuesday.

NEEDED ITEMS:

– NEW socks / underwear
– baby wipes
– 1st aid kits
– WORK gloves
– contractor trash bags
– flashlights
– batteries
– glow sticks
– sunscreen
– bug spray

The dropoff point:
405 Bartley Road
Jackson, NJ (next to the Knights of Columbus)

NOTE: PLEASE DO NOT BRING UHAULs HERE or 18-WHEELERS

INFO: Call (732) 994-5112 (Or click the banner below)

“If you can help, please pay it forward,” Nadine Demczyszyn said.

PHOTO, ABOVE: Courtesy SamaritansPurse.org International Disaster Relief

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