When People Needed Clean Water During The Winter Storm, Fort Worth's Businesses Answered The Call

Arlington TX

17 February, 2022

4:58 PM

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By Alexis Allison, Fort Worth Report February 16, 2022 In the days after the winter storm settled drearily across Fort Worth in February 2021, the fire department's Office of Emergency Management received unexpected aid from local businesses whose containers, in normal weeks, held other goods. That week, however, milk jugs and pickle buckets and brewing tanks and a wildly painted school bus would help provide a much-needed and inaccessible resource — clean water — to hundreds of thousands of residents who'd lost access to their own. The cohort of unlikely allies that came together to love their neighbors in the cold asked for no recognition, but simply did their part to serve the community, said Kristen O'Hare, an emergency management officer and spokesperson for the Fort Worth Fire Department. Furthermore, she said, the pickle company, the brewery, the milk distributor and the nonprofit represent only a fraction of the groups who gave of themselves that cold week in February. "I never could have imagined the way that Fort Worth, without even being asked, just stepped up," she said. To read the full article, click here. Fort Worth Report is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that produces factual, in-depth journalism about city and county government, schools, healthcare, business, and arts and culture in Tarrant County. Always free to read; subscribe to newsletters, read coverage or support our newsroom at fortworthreport.org.