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Forest Acres sends donations to Kentucky flood victims [Video]

A truck full of non-perishables, toys, and books hit the road pulling a patrol car behind it for Letcher County.

FOREST ACRES, S.C. — The first weekend of October is the 7-year anniversary of the 2015 flood here in the Midlands, and the City of Forest Acres is helping another community that has been devastated by a similar crisis. 

“It’s just feels right and feels wonderful,” said Forest Acres Police Chief Don Robinson. 

On Tuesday morning, Robinson, several officers and city leaders closed up and strapped down months’ worth of donations and a patrol car and drove them off to Letcher County in Kentucky. 

Letcher County is in the eastern half of the Kentucky, where communities are picking up the pieces after a late July flood

“I had a resident contact me about the floods in Eastern Kentucky and wanted to know if we had a surplus of cars, police cars to donate to the people in Eastern …

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