When a disaster happens and Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers respond, the requests for help start pouring in from the community.

And Mark Wakefield, disaster relief strategist for Alabama Baptists, said handling logistics is a big job.

“Every time we go to a response, we have to have some place to set up our office, our incident management site,” he said. “From there, we manage the job requests coming in and the volunteer teams who are coming and going.”

Usually their office is a church in the affected area, but it can be a lot to ask of a church when a response can take up to eight weeks, Mark said.

So he’s excited that Alabama Baptists have a new resource — an incident management trailer that can serve as their field office. The trailer has a conference room, desk space and white boards that can be used to coordinate disaster relief efforts.

It also has a generator as well as cell phone boost capabilities and access to the Starlink satellite system, all of which are especially helpful as cell towers are often not working after a storm hits.

“This trailer will be a huge help, and it’s available directly because of the Myers-Mallory State Missions Offering,” Mark said.