Volunteers Save Senior Center's Food During Power Outage

FREMONT, CA — A power outage last Thursday at the Fremont Senior Center in Central Park forced the cancellation of lunch, as Patch reported at the time. Behind the scenes a much bigger drama was unfolding. The center was in danger of losing its entire supply of frozen food because of the outage.

But, the Fremont Fire Department reports, a whole bunch of good people and businesses stepped forward to prevent that from happening.

The Fire Department's Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Volunteers sprang into action, loading the food into a truck provided by Sysco Food Distribution company. Also doing its part was Fremont Unified School District.

The food was saved, the power is restored, the air conditioning is back on to keep seniors cool on hot summer days, and Fremont proved that it can pull together on a moment's notice to get things done.

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