The food bank at one of the Wenatchee Valley's most active charitable organizations is scrambling to stay afloat following a major flood.
Serve Wenatchee (Serve) executive director, Mike Malmin, says the incident at their main offices and food bank at 12 Orondo Avenue happened sometime in the wee hours of Tuesday morning.
"It was a main line to the fire suppression system in the building that ruptured. The restoration company that's here this morning surveying the damage said they have never seen that much water coming out of a pipe into a building. In fact, the police were actually the ones who identified it when officers were driving down Columbia (Avenue) they saw water cascading down the hill. It's estimated that the water got up to three feet high inside the building with the front