Hurricane Ike evacuation shelters

Salvation Army:

On Friday in San Antonio, The Salvation Army will continue to serve meals from a large mobile kitchen and two canteens stationed at Kelly Air Force Base. The Army is serving about 600 meals at a time, including a breakfast and midnight supper. Several smaller mobile canteens units will deploy to San Antonio for staging once the storm clears the coast.

In Tyler, The Salvation Army began feeding on Thursday at the evacuee registration center. Approximately 50 bus loads of people have already arrived and more are expected today. Additional canteens from the Gustav response will be staging there, along with five Southern Baptist kitchens and a satellite communications trailer, among other materials and equipment.

In addition, several Salvation Army units in Texas have mobilized to support sheltering and feeding including:

-- Texarkana - sheltering and feeding

-- Paris - feeding

-- Tyler - feeding and sheltering first responders

-- Abilene - feeding at an American Red Cross (ARC) shelter in Marshall

-- Port Arthur - feeding at an ARC shelter in Nacogdoches

-- Lufkin - feeding at Civic Center

-- College Station - feeding breakfasts at ARC shelter on Texas A&M Campus

-- Temple - feeding at scattered sites in Bell County

-- Killeen - feeding at two sites in Killeen

-- Dallas-Ft. Worth - prepared to feed at several sites in the Metroplex beginning Friday

-- Kerrville - feeding in New Braunfels

American Red Cross

State of Texas Activates Shelter Hubs for Hurricane IKE

The State of Texas has activated the Shelter Hub in Huntsville as of 2:30 pm this afternoon. The Greater Houston Area Chapter of the American Red Cross is currently supporting the shelters in Huntsville Texas. Evacuees will go to a reception area, which is on the northbound side of I-45, south of Huntsville. It is at Mile Marker 101, which is a weigh station (for trucks). They will be assigned and directed to a specific shelter in that area. People evacuating from Galveston who need shelter are strongly encouraged to go North on I-45 to the Huntsville Shelter Hub or the Dallas Shelter Hub. Those evacuating from Brazoria County who need shelter are encouraged to go to Shelter Hubs in either Bryan/College Station or Austin.

Evacuee shelters

Wilkerson-Greines Activity Center, 5201 C.A. Roberson Blvd. is the evacuee sign-in center. People fleeing Hurricane Ike should register there to be assigned a shelter.

Tarrant County shelters have been prepared at these locations:

Midway Recreation Center, 300 E. Midway Drive, Euless

Worth Heights Community Center, 3551 New York Ave., Fort Worth

Highland Hills Community Center, 1600 Glasgow Road, Fort Worth

Greenbriar Community Center , 5200 Hemphill St., Fort Worth

Handley/Meadowbrook Community Center, 6201 Beaty St., Fort Worth

Eugene McCray Community Center, 4932 Wilbarger St., Fort Worth

Martin Luther King Community Center, 5565 Truman Drive, Fort Worth

North Tri-Ethnic Community Center, 2950 Roosevelt Ave., Fort Worth

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Special needs shelter In Fort Worth, the Fire Station Community Center, 1501 Lipscomb, and HAWS Athletic Center, 600 Congress, will serve as a shelter for people with special needs.

Pet care Pets will be sheltered at the Fort Worth Animal Care and Control Division, 4900 Martin St. All pets will be microchipped so they can be returned to their owners.

Information center An information center was set up by the city of Burleson and the Red Cross to help people arriving by car on Interstate 35W. It is at the Seventh-day Adventist Church at 601 S. Burleson Blvd.

more updates available here

call 211 for shelter information if self evacuating