Clean Up Begins After 'Suspicious' Fire At Jesus House Warehouse

The clean up is just getting started after a "suspicious" fire at the Jesus House warehouse downtown on Tuesday.

Wednesday, August 15th 2012, 4:01 pm

By: Karl Torp


The clean up is just getting started after a "suspicious" fire at the Jesus House warehouse downtown on Tuesday.

The fire was started around 9 p.m. Tuesday inside their community outreach center. It's the building where they take in donations and prepare meals for local homeless.

A lot of the donations, like clothes, furniture and food is now gone.

8/14/2012 Related Story: OKC Firefighters Contain Fire At Jesus House Warehouse

"The structure appears to be OK. It's a matter of cleaning up," says Jesus House Executive Director Rick Denny.

Firefighters say the fire looks suspicious, because they believed they've located four different spots inside the warehouse where the fire was started.

"We don't turn no one down and it's wrong that someone would do something like this," says Harry Tucker, who lives in the Jesus House Homeless shelter across the street from the warehouse which caught fire.

The Jesus House hopes to be back up and running at 100% in a week.

Karl Torp

Karl Torp is an award-winning journalist who’s been part of the News 9 team since 2012. He co-anchors the 4 p.m., 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts on weekdays. Karl loves telling Oklahoma’s unique stories, and he’s also a huge sports junkie. He loves to think of trades that would help the Oklahoma City Thunder win a World Championship (despite knowing little to nothing about salary caps and luxury taxes).

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