The third floor of the East Chicago Carmelite Home sustained considerable damage from Sunday afternoon s fire.
Local police are helping publicize donation efforts to aid residents displaced by a fire Sunday at East Chicago s St. Joseph Carmelite Home.
The facility is now accepting meal donations on a calendar day basis. The hope is that businesses, fraternal groups, churches and families will sign up to donate a full meal for a particular day, a news release from the Highland Police Department states.
The home, which houses at-need children â from infancy to 18 years old â is in need of meals big enough to feed about 40 people. That includes children and staff, police said.