Florence fire leaves family without food
By Charlotte Burrous |
PUBLISHED: October 12, 2011 at 8:19 a.m. | UPDATED: April 15, 2019 at 5:49 a.m.
Florence –No one was injured when a fire swept through a shed at 174 Cedar over the weekend, leaving one family without a livelihood or any groceries.
"They lost food they had just bought and put it in the freezer, and her purse (burned up)," said landowner Gloria Del Duca. "He's a butcher and she does the books so it was on the desk. She always locks up and thinks it's safe."
However, it was not safe for Mike and Wendy Carpenter in the early morning hours Sunday when the shed where he butchers meat for a living and she works as a bookkeeper was destroyed by the flames.
According to Del Duca, the shed was a metal building.
The Carpenters, who rent the shed, are having a hard time, Del Duca said.
"I'm asking for people to (donate) food," she added. "(Individuals) can get the (items) through me or take it to right out (to their house)."
"They have five kids from third grade and one of them is a senior," Del Duca said.
To donate groceries, call 429-4910 or drive to 174 Cedar to deliver them. To reach the house, turn south on Colo. 67, then after crossing the railroad tracks, turn right on a gravel road to a red brick house, where the Carpenters live.
Charlotte Burrous