Victim Contact Information Form

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We need your help! With organizations willing and wanting to help the tornado victims with their needs, it is imperative that we are able to contact those who are living or once lived in the tornado path. Filling out this contact form could mean the difference between a family receiving free aid and not receiving it. This form is not a promise of aid, but rather an attempt to get contact information for those who might qualify for aid.

Due to the fact that so many families have moved quickly to alternate temporary/permanent addresses, contacting them is difficult. We understand that you as their friend or relative might not know all the information below, but just providing what you do know can help us develop the contact list. We will compare this form with postal records and other community resources to determine who the residents are from the damage area and how to contact them.

This information will be treated with the utmost care and not given out to contractors or businesses, but will be treated with confidentiality from the Mayor's office and the County Emergency Management Agency.

Thank you for volunteering your time as you fill out this form in care for others!

If you have any questions or concerns please contact Mayor Joe Wellman's office at 812-254-5575 or the website administrator of this form, Christopher Wiles (Minister at Washington Church of Christ), at 812-610-2484.

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Message from Mayor Wellman: Volunteer Center and Thank You

"After being open for a week, Our Volunteer Center at the Assembly of God has served its purpose & closed yesterday afternoon. Thank you to the church & Pastor Steven Thomas for letting us use your lot & church this past week. If anyone needs assistance going forward the best place to call would be Connections, 257-2650. Could also contact United Way, 254-1038, or Red Cross, 254-9877. If you can't get any of those, call my office 254-5575. We really do want to help anyone who was affected by the tornado last Sunday."

A Message from the Mayor

Thank you, thank you, thank you - words that seem so small when I think of everything and everyone   The outpouring of assistance has been extremely gratifying and truly humbling.  While it is impossible right now to list by name the sources of help, please allow me to express appreciation personally & on behalf of the community.  

our community is thankful for.

From the great number of volunteers of all ages that have been here, to businesses, churches & non-profit organizations, to the cooperation of our City department employees, to County personnel – all who donated food, water, shelter, equipment & manpower – I am grateful to all.  The volunteers have come from everywhere, from down the street to several States away.  And to my fellow City Mayors who offered equipment, manpower, emotional support, and prayers, thank you.  

But my biggest Thank You is to Almighty God for protecting us from death and injury. 

With eternal gratitude,

Joe Wellman

Mayor, Washington, Indiana

Thursday & Friday Cleanup

From the Mayor's Meeting concerning cleanup on Thursday and Friday

Thank You!
Thank you for your overwhelming response in helping our community cleanup.  The efforts have been a tremendous success!

Volunteer Work
The remainder of the work for Thursday and Friday looks to be raking, sweeping, picking up of small debris, and putting debris trash bags by the road side.  Many garden rakes, wheel barrows, and flat blade shovels have been donated.  Please wear work boots if available to reduce the risk of injury from nails.  Remember to first check in at the Volunteer Center located at the Assembly of God on 320 S. Meridian St. We are currently expecting our clean up needs to be complete by the end of the day Friday.  Thanks again for your service!

Electrical Wires
Please do not approach to pick up any power lines laying on the ground.  Wires may still have current.  Please call the electric department to report downed lines that need to be removed or report them at the Volunteer Center located at the Assembly of God on Meridian St.

Barricades
Police barricades will remain up through Thursday evening to protect our volunteers from traffic.  Please do not drive your vehicles around the barricades. 

Victims Needing Help
If you are a tornado victim needing any assistance please call the Connections helpline at 812-257-2650.  If a volunteer does not answer, please leave a message and you will be contacted.  You may also visit the Volunteer City on Thursday to report a need.

Materials Donations
Our community is currently not asking for any more material donations.  The known needs for food, cleaning supplies, and clothing have been met at this time.  We are currently working to handle our surplus.  Thank you for your desire to help. 

Monetary Donations

Daviess County Organizations Active in Disaster is equipped to receive funds for tornado disaster. Donations are being received. Send checks to DCOAD or United Way of Daviess County, PO Box 224, Wash. IN 47501, marked "Tornado Relief".   [DCOAD includes DC Emergency Management Agency, DC Sheriff Department, DC Health Department, American Red Cross, United Way of Daviess County, et all].  Applications for 'need' come through "Connections", at 257-2650.   

The DCOAD [Daviess County Organizations Active in Diaster] grew out of the DCLTRC [Long-Term Recovery Committee] formed in 2008. The mission statement is,  "To meet the need[s] for ongoing coordination & preparedness among communities [in Daviess County] by providing volunteers, financial, spiritial, physical and/or psychological support for individuals whose lives have been ravaged by a natural disaster in Daviess County.

To provide collaborative leadership in the discernment of long-term needs for recovery and rehbilitation that can be most effectively met by this community.  This mission is establilshed to prepare, protect & care for the citizens of Daviess County before, during & after a disaster."

Contact people for DCOAD are:  Paul Goss, DCEMA;  Ken Pierson, Director;  Sherry Davies Case Manager;  Brenda Sobecki, Physical Agent; Cindy Barber, secretary;  Richard Smith, board chr.

If people want to help the Red Cross as we continue to help those affected by the tornado. Monetary contributions can be mailed to PO box 350 or dropped off at the Red Cross office, 307 SE 21st Street in Washington.

From Mayor Wellman

From Mayor Wellman

"Besides lots of thanks that I've posted to my personal website (& will post in the future here & there), the 2 biggest messages right now are: (1) Thank You, dear God, for sparing the citizens of our City & County from injuries as a result of the tornado. (2) If you have been a victim of the tornado, please stop by the Assembly of God church at Meridian & Harned this week & let us know what you need. We have had an outpouring of help for volunteer work, food, water, toiletries, etc, but we need to know where to send it."