After work on Aug. 31, Madisyn Harlan headed to the Stead Airport.
There, she and 16 colleagues loaded frozen chickens, dairy products, fruits, vegetables, nonperishable foods and hygiene kits into the vehicles of people who’d come to restock their pantries and fridges, a few days after evacuation warnings were lifted in and near Stead.
The Hawk Fire, which started on Peavine Mountain on Aug. 22, tore into North Valleys neighborhoods, destroying 47 residential structures and damaging 14.
Harlan is the community relations lead at NV Energy, which donated $25,000 to the Food Bank of Northern Nevada after the fire. She and her team were responding to a request to distribute emergency food boxes at what the Food Bank called a “mobile harvest pop-up” event…