A team of 10 Missouri Disaster Relief volunteers traveled to Stanton, Kentucky the week of March 7-13 to assist with flood relief. The Missouri team was an incident management team sent to help coordinate the efforts of several Kentucky Baptist DR teams who were responding with flood recovery efforts.

Among those responding to the disaster was Mike Hibbard of Auxvasse.

Eddie Barnhill of Charleston who was the leader of the team said the Kentucky River and some of its tributaries overflowed their banks in several places during a heavy series of rains on March 1st. Local emergency officials said it was the worst flooding event they have experienced there since 1978.

The Kentucky Baptist Disaster Relief staff, headed up by former Diamond pastor, Ron Crow, asked Missouri Baptists to send an IMT team to help them with coordination of the clean up efforts.

Barnhill added that the first 36 hours on the ground in a disaster zone are pretty chaotic and the IMT volunteers are helping the Kentucky DR teams “put together a lot of moving pieces.” They arrived on Sunday night, March 7.