Overview

• The latest blaze broke out around 6:20 p.m. on July 16 at the Emergency Food Bank’s West Scott Street facility, marking four fires since late June.
• City investigators have opened an arson probe after surveillance from an earlier blaze showed a suspect tossing an incendiary device into stored cardboard.
• CEO Dr. Leonard Hansen says the repeated fires appear intentional and pledges uninterrupted daily distributions for roughly 450–500 cars.
• Staff have mobilized cleanup and sanitation efforts to keep the food bank operational while engineers assess overpass integrity.
• The food bank serves about 500 cars daily and supplies 107 partner sites in a county where an estimated 83,000 residents face food insecurity.