Anne Arundel County Response Team “Rescues” Orphan Grain Train Again

Orphan Grain Train (OGT) is an all-volunteer Christian charity dedicated to serving the needy both in the United States and around the world. Located at a red warehouse on East West Boulevard in Millersville, the charity was offered 17 hospital beds from Medstar Harbor Hospital in Baltimore — which will be shipped to a hospital in India. Volunteers, whose average age is close to 70, were faced with the task of somehow transporting the heavy and awkward beds to the warehouse and then storing them in a 20-foot-high loft.

Enter the Anne Arundel County Special Operations Response Team (SORT). Armed with brains, brawn and sinew, the team, along with some members of the St. Martin’s-in-the-Field Episcopal Church on Benfield Boulevard, managed to place the beds in the loft. How? By using a forklift as an “elevator,” and with a lot of teamwork.

This isn’t the first time that the SORT has volunteered to help OGT. The team previously filled a truck with dozens of excess student chairs from Anne Arundel County Board of Education that eventually ended up in a school in Liberia.