Westborough Apartment Fire: U-Haul Offers 30 Days Free Storage to Residents

WESTBOROUGH, Mass. (Dec. 9, 2024) — U-Haul^® has made a local Company facility available to provide a month of free self-storage services to residents in need after a fire at a Westborough apartment complex.

The fire at Arrive Westborough at 239 Turnpike Road occurred Monday morning. At least 100 families are now displaced by the fire and resulting water damage to the units.

Access to dry and secure self-storage can assist families during the recovery process.

“Our hearts go out to all the families impacted by this fire,” said Josh Alexander, U-Haul Company of Central Massachusetts president. “We understand the hardship and loss they are experiencing. We want to help our community by offering these families a safe place to store their belongings while they figure out what's next.”

The 30 days free offer applies to new self-storage rentals and is based on availability. People seeking more information about the U-Haul disaster relief program or needing to arrange storage should contact the participating location:

U-Haul Moving & Storage of Northborough

40 Bearfoot Road

Northborough, MA 01532

(508) 709-0256

About U-HAUL 

Founded in 1945, U-Haul is the No. 1 choice of do-it-yourself movers with more than 23,000 rental locations across all 50 states and 10 Canadian provinces. The U-Haul app makes it easy for customers to use U-Haul Truck Share 24/7 to access trucks anytime through the self-dispatch and -return options on their smartphones with our patented Live Verify technology. Our customers' patronage has enabled the U-Haul fleet to grow to 192,000 trucks, 138,700 trailers and 39,500 towing devices. U-Haul is the third largest self-storage operator in North America with 1,024,000 rentable units and 88.5 million square feet of self-storage space at Company-owned and -managed facilities. U-Haul is the top retailer of propane in the U.S. and the largest installer of permanent trailer hitches in the automotive aftermarket industry. Get the U-Haul app from the App Store or Google Play.

Contact: 

Sydney Ellis

Jeff Lockridge

E-mail: publicrelations@uhaul.com 

Phone: 602-263-6981 

Website: uhaul.com