Members of the San Francisco Fire Department and the San Francisco Police Department faced off on Wednesday morning in an annual tradition of carving turkeys that will be part of Thanksgiving meals provided by the Salvation Army to people in need in the Tenderloin.
“We have 24 turkeys, and this is gonna feed about 400 people,” said Matthew Madsen with the San Francisco division of the Salvation Army and the organizer of the event. On Thursday, the organization will be delivering an additional 4,000 meals to people in the neighborhood.
“For a lot of those folks, it will be the only person they see all day,” Madsen said of the delivery drivers dropping off the meals. “So it’s a real blessing.”…