The roof over a massive storage freezer at a local food bank collapsed over the holiday weekend.
When employees arrived Tuesday morning at the America’s Second Harvest of the Coastal Empire building at 2501 East President Street they discovered the damage, said Executive Director Mary Jane Crouch.
Currently, employees are awaiting the arrival of workers who plan to secure the structure, enter it and salvage as much of the food as possible that’s stored inside the estimated 25,000 to 30,000 cubic foot freezer.
“It’s a lot of food,” Crouch said. “The freezer can hold six tractor trailers worth of food.”
Second Harvest has secured three freezer tractor trailers to store the salvaged food, but until workers get inside the collapsed freezer — which is still cold, Crouch said — the food bank can’t make additional plans.
“We don’t know what they’re going to find or what’s going to happen,” Crouch said.
“The important thing is that no one was here when it collapsed and so no one was injured,” she added. “That’s what we’re really thankful for right now.”