As reported on an October 12 posting on insideselfstorage.com, Storage First self-storage is donating up to 90 days of free storage to Georgia flood victims in response to the recent devastation that eight days of prolonged rain caused to the city and surrounding areas. Those in need may use one of the drive-up, climate-controlled units at the company’s Douglasville, Georgia facility at 2477 Fairburn Road in Douglasville.
“We at Storage First realize how difficult and challenging this is for the members of our community,” said a Storage First representative. “Recognizing the devastation of having one’s ‘life treasures’ displaced, we hope having a climate-controlled space to store what has been salvaged will help preserve them until they find their next home.”
Storage First joins SpaceMax and U-Store-It, who on September 23 and September 25, respectively, also offered free storage to Georgia flood victims.
Like Storage First, SpaceMax Storage in Atlanta also offered flood victims 90 days of free storage, coupled with free use of its moving trucks to residents who qualify.
“SpaceMax is a new company in the Atlanta market,” said John Rinehart, manager of the company’s midtown Atlanta location. “Our rationale for helping is simple. Our facilities are extremely large and we still have ample rentable square feet empty and available. There’s no way we can possibly rent all of that out over the next few months while local residents are cleaning up, and we know that people in our community are in need of what we have right now, so we can’t think of a better way to put this space to good use.”
U-Store-It Trust's Atlanta self-storage facilities offered one month of rent-free storage through October 31 to flood victims.
On September 2, insideselfstorage.com reported that US Storage Centers facilities in Irwindale, La Crescenta, Mission Hills and Montrose, California, generously offered free storage to help fire victims in the areas devastated by wildfires north of Los Angeles through the Red Cross and local fire and police departments.
“These are our communities, our neighbors,” said Mike Brady, senior director of operations. “We are happy to assist in any way we can.”
US Storage Centers is managed by Westport Properties, which manages more than 3 million square feet of self-storage in five states.