A fire inside Tinley Park nonprofit Together We Cope has ruined most of the food and donated items they had planned to distribute for the holidays.
The fire happened Monday morning as the Together We Cope organization was about to kick off their annual Thanksgiving food distribution to families in need.
Straneiro arrived to see smoke coming out of the building on Oak Park Avenue and 170th Street as families were showing up to pick up what would have been their Thanksgiving meal. The nonprofit said the fire started in a sorting room in their resale shop. Sprinklers contained the flames, but left behind extensive smoke and water damage.
The majority of the food will have to be thrown out, along with donated items that were for sale. Turkeys set for distribution were stored outside the building and thankfully saved from the fire.
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