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WHKP accepting donated water for wildfire crews, evacuees

By Bill Moss, Published: November 12, 2016

WHKP radio is collecting donations of bottled water, Gatorade and packaged snacks for evacuees and for the firefighters fighting the 2,000-acre Party Rock wildfire in the Lake Lure area. Someone will be at the station on Seventh Avenue across from Lowes from 6 a.m. to noon Sunday to accept the donated supplies. A shelter has been set up at the Bat Cave Baptist Church for evacuees.

Anyone who would like to donate any of these items for the firefighters and those who are evacuated can drop them off by WHKP’s
Broadcast House Sunday morning from 6 a.m. to noon. News and Program Director Larry Freeman said the radio station would collect
the donations and at noon will take them to Bat Cave Fire and Rescue. Freeman said he’d talked with Bat Cave fire officials and
they are shuttling supplies to the firemen up on the mountain fighting the blaze.