Fire ravages the Simple Way community

The Simple way is an amazing community serving one another in the poverty stricken area of Kensington in Philadelphia. This is the update on a 7-alarm fire from the Simple Way site.

6/20/07 11:25PM (UPDATED)
This morning, a 7-alarm fire consumed an abandoned warehouse in our Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia. The Simple Way Community Center at 3200 Potter Street was destroyed as well as at least eight of our neighbors’ homes. Over 100 people were evacuated from their homes, and 400 families are currently without power. Despite this tragedy, we are incredibly thankful to share that all of our community members and every one of our neighbors is safely out of harm’s way.

This fire will forever change the fabric of our community. Eight families are currently homeless, and in many cases have lost their vehicles as well as their homes. One of our neighbors, the Mahaias Family, lost their three cars as well as the equipment one family member uses for her massage therapy business. Teenager Brian Mahaias is devastated not because he has lost his belongings, but because he fears that this fire will force him to move away from this neighborhood that is his family as well as his home.

Please help if you at all can. To lose so much for any person is a great burden of pain but for those who already have so little and are struggling in many ways, it must be unbearable. Thanks to God for the lives that were spared and for the strength of the Simple Way community as they bear one another’s burdens.

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