Tim Bennett, warehouse manager at the Maricopa Food Pantry in Maricopa, Ariz. (L), and pantry CEO Jim Shoaf stand in front of a pile of burned remains of six trailers and 48,000 pounds of food that went up in an electrical fire at the pantry on March 28, 2022. Allan Stein/The Epoch Times
MARICOPA, Ariz.—Maricopa Food Pantry CEO Jim Shoaf said the devastating pantry fire on March 28 in Maricopa, Arizona, couldn’t have come at a worse time of peak demand and concern about food shortages.
The electrical fire started at noon inside an old battery-powered pallet jack; by sunset, six parked trailers and 48,000 pounds of storage food lay in smoldering ruins.
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Allan Stein is a national reporter for The Epoch Times based in Arizona.
