U-Haul Offers 30 Days of Free Storage to
Central California Wildfire Victims

BAKERSFIELD, Calif., class="xn-chron">July 29 /PRNewswire/ -- The U-Haul Company
of Fresno is offering 30 days of
free storage to Central California
residents who have been evacuated or need to move their belongings
away from areas affected by the wildfire.

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In addition to the 30-days-free self-storage assistance being
offered, people who need boxes can take advantage of the U-Haul
Take a Box, Leave a Box Program. The program enables customers to
return their reusable boxes and allows others to take them as
needed – FREE. U-Haul encourages anyone who has any type of
reusable box to drop it off at the nearest U-Haul location and
allow another family to reuse the box, free of charge, instead of
throwing the reusable box into the recycling bin.

Families needing more information about the 30-days-free
self-storage assistance program should contact the following U-Haul
center:

"This wildfire has already caused tremendous damage and
inflicted extreme hardship on the communities we serve," stated
Todd Ferreira, president, U-Haul
Company of Fresno. "I hope this
effort will provide assistance to families that truly need a
helping hand in areas affected by these fires.  We will
continue to help our friends and neighbors in this time of
need."

About U-Haul

Since 1945, U-Haul has been the choice for the do-it-yourself
mover, with a network of more than 16,300 locations in all 50
States and 10 Canadian provinces. U-Haul customers' patronage has
enabled the Company to maintain the largest rental fleet in the
"do-it-yourself" moving industry with approximately 98,000 trucks,
77,000 trailers and 34,000 towing devices. U-Haul offers nearly
402,000 rooms and approximately 35.5 million square feet of storage
space at nearly 1,100 owned and managed facilities throughout class="xn-location">North America. U-Haul is the consumer's
number one choice as the largest installer of permanent trailer
hitches in the automotive aftermarket industry. The Company
supplies alternative-fuel for vehicles and backyard barbecues as
one of the nation's largest retailers of propane.

U-Haul was founded by a Navy veteran who grew up during the
Great Depression. Tires and gas were still rationed or in short
supply during the late 1940s when U-Haul began serving U.S.
customers. Today, that background is central to the U-Haul
Sustainability Program: "Serving the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own
needs." Our commitment to reduce, reuse and recycle includes fuel
efficient moving vans, neighborhood proximity, moving-box reuse,
moving pads made from discarded material, and packing peanuts that
are 100 percent biodegradable.  Learn more about these facts
and others at href="http://www.uhaul.com/sustainability">www.uhaul.com/sustainability.

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