Soot and the smell of smoke remain inside the Parkdale Food Centre’s community pantry two days after a fire badly damaged the enclosure.
"Paper, insulation and somebody had shoved all this stuff in here and they lit it on fire," executive director Karen Secord said.
"He smelled the smoke, he took all the stuff out of the pantry and immediately moved the fridge out worried about an electrical fire," she explained. "They really saved us from losing this whole shed." "Myself and a lot of people use this twice a week, sometimes more if I have to," said one person who dropped by to grab a few items.
"With the cost of food continuing to rise, it's creating stress on people already struggling to meet their food security needs," said Ottawa Community Food Partnership manager Erica Braunovan. "The food banking system that we've been using is broken and we need to have new approaches to food security."
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