Hyster Co. recently donated a new lift truck to aid wildfire relief in California. The truck will be used in a warehouse located in Miramar, Calif. The State of California and Adventist Community Services (ACS), a nonprofit volunteer organization, requested donations of material handling equipment for use in the state’s recovery warehouses.
The Hyster truck will help fuel Southern California’s recovery from the devastating wildfires that caused more than $1 billion in damage, and forced the evacuation of 1 million people in October.
Charlene Sargent, pacific regional disaster response coordinator for Adventist Community Services Disaster Response, says that the Hyster lift truck is a tremendous asset to the facility. “Besides our volunteers and computers, our forklift is the most valuable thing that we have,” Sargent said. “And because the Hyster truck was donated and not rented, we can use it for future events wherever and whenever it is needed.”
Based in Greenville, N.C., Hyster is designs and manufactures lift trucks in North America. The company offers more than 130 models configured for gasoline, LPG, diesel, and electric power.
