The number of displaced Southern Californians climbed to more than 1 million Wednesday as several wildfires continued their warlike march across the state's arid brush and forests.
Tuesday night saw some 12,000 S. Diego residents bed-in at the downtown Qualcomm Stadium, waiting for word on the fate of their homes and belongings. There to feed about 3,000 of them were Chabad-Lubavitch representatives and a team of volunteers who had driven in a mobile kitchen to supplement the relief efforts of the city's own Chabad Houses.
Los Angeles Chabad’s Food Truck Feeds Evacuees in S. Diego
The number of displaced Southern Californians climbed to more than 1 million Wednesday as several wildfires continued their warlike march across the state’s arid brush and forests.
Tuesday night saw some 12,000 S. Diego residents bed-in at the downtown Qualcomm Stadium, waiting for word on the fate of their homes and belongings. There to feed about 3,000 of them were Chabad-Lubavitch representatives and a team of volunteers who had driven in a mobile kitchen to supplement the relief efforts of the city’s own Chabad Houses.
“We had chicken soup, hot dogs, potato kugel, chicken, rice, fried vegetables, whatever you would want,” reported Rabbi Mendel Cohen, a bit weary at 1 a.m. Wednesday in the midst of his trek back to Los Angeles. “The kosher food was a big hit.”
Cohen, co-director of the Maalot Chabad Center in West Los Angeles, manages the Sharing the Warmth program of Chabad of the West Coast that helps Holocaust survivors and the elderly. With the help of some community members, he took the organization’s food truck, stocked it with food donated by two local businesses – Jeff’s Gourment Kosher Sausage and Kosher Club – brought along a chef and headed south through the smoke-filled air towards S. Diego.
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