H-E-B provides tour of Disaster Response Units [Video]

AUSTIN, Texas – A collection of vehicles took up a portion of the parking lot at Shoreline Church on Wednesday morning. It was a full deployment of H-E-B’s Disaster Response Unit, known as a DRU.

The grocery chain’s history of answering calls for help goes back almost to the beginning.

“H-E-B’s Spirit of giving really started in 1905 with our founder, Florence. And so, she and her three little boys would take them over to the Guadalupe River, and she would help feed the displaced residents there,” said Tamera Jones with H-E-B.

The store’s first big relief effort, according to Jones, was in 1933 after a strong hurricane hit the Rio Grand Valley. Major storm events typically activate the DRUs, but the Panhandle wildfires brought about the most recent deployment.

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