Employees and volunteers with a non-profit feed scarborough focused on addressing food insecurity at the eastern end of Toronto are looking for reconstruction of their community farm after being damaged in the fire.
The untimely fire in the farm of the organization with a community garden bed located on St. Clare Avenue East near Scarborough Go Transit train station came within a week of two acts of alleged barbarity. An old, donated TTC bus set should be re -presented as a mobile food bank and the feed Scarborough commercial truck used for important delivery was covered with frescoes.
It was around 3 pm on 8 July when a nearby business worker set fire and called 911. Staff with feed Scarboro said that Toronto Fire Services Crew was able to extinguish it after some time.
“It is disastrous,” Suman Roy, also known as the founder of Feed Scarboro – Scarboro Food Safety InitiativeIn an interview on Tuesday, told Citynews.
“Are people thinking if it is intentional? And if it is not, then I think it is a big accident. But what can happen that I am most concerned.”
During the site visit on Tuesday, Manager Sukhmani Singh showed the intensity of flames. Decorative light bulbs were melted along the part of the bus bumper. He said that the tube used to bring water from about 200 feet away also melted. The small, white decorative fence in front of the garden was completely burnt and later removed.
Singh and Roy said that they are grateful that many plots of the garden were spared more expensive and culturally from a variety of production such as Okra and Brinjal Flames.
Citynews contacted the Toronto Police Service to ask about the case. A spokesperson said in a brief statement that the authorities and a investigation are still being done. He said that there were no other updates to provide so far.
As the fire was arson, Roy said that Roy said that he is waiting to see what the evidence shows but some have linked the incident with a nearby shelter.
He said, “We celebrate diversity, we celebrate love, and without knowing what happened … coming to a conclusion and indicates the fingers, it was more disappointing for me,” he said.
Meanwhile, Roy said that he and other people from the feed Scarboro are expecting financial or volunteer support from those who may be able to help.
He said, “We need money to buy goods and portray the truck, portray the bus, buy materials for the fence and then to help make the fence … so we don’t need to contract out and spend more money,” he said.
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