We are seeking about 10-15 volunteers to help cook simple meals, clean the sleeping areas, and direct traffic in the parking lot. We hope to have regular volunteers between 2-6pm each night for the next week. Please sign up to volunteer using the button below and we will contact you and schedule shifts. If you have an active medical license (nurse, physician) please sign up as a regular volunteer using the "I want to volunteer" button above and let us know your qualifications. We need volunteer medical staff available to answer questions and triage newcomers to local facilities as needed. Lots of breathing concerns because of the air quality and the shelter is not equipped to handle it.

We have opened a shelter at the combined Jr-Sr high school, just north of the gas station.

Residents: You can pick up hygiene and meal kits in the parking lot at the main entrance of the school and take them with you if you are staying in the area and don't need shelter. For those who would like to stay in the shelter, we can't accept pets. Please contact Animal Control Officer Melissa Alvarado at 614-338-9210 to see if there is room in the municipal shelter for any pets.

The shelter will open today at 3pm and stay open through next Friday at least.

We have started this new platform to organize people and activities in the aftermath of the 2024 wildfires that swept through Area 51. The fire displayed otherworldly behavior and sent unidentified debris flying high in the sky.