{"id":431883,"date":"2026-09-10T16:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/431883\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T16:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:26:15","slug":"fort-worth-homeless-shelter-issues-urgent-plea-after-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/431883\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth homeless shelter issues urgent plea after fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/article\/fort-worth-guide-things-to-do-bars-restaurants-22319544.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth<\/a> homeless shelter issued a plea for donations after a fire destroyed a storage facility Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/2018\/01\/27\/fort-worth-pays-homeless-to-help-clean-up-city-s-streets\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Presbyterian Night Shelter <\/a>lost clothing, hygiene products, towels and bed sheets that it planned to distribute in the coming months. No one was injured in the early morning fire, and a cause has not been determined.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing could be salvaged, the shelter said, and it must quickly replace the items to prepare guests for the winter.<\/p>\n<p>Monetary donations can be made <a href=\"https:\/\/giving.journeyhome.org\/campaign\/841562\/donate\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a>. The shelter also has an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/hz\/wishlist\/ls\/1MQMCKK2VZXIC?type=wishlist&amp;filter=unpurchased&amp;sort=priority&amp;viewType=list\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon wish list<\/a>, which includes diapers, menstrual hygiene products, underwear, sweatshirts and winter coats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is also accepting donations of gently used clothing and household items. Those can be dropped off at Greater Give at the Greater Good Collective, 2603 Cherry Lane, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Presbyterian Night Shelter, just southeast of downtown Fort Worth, is the largest provider of homeless services in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/politics\/article\/tarrant-election-controversial-plan-22375524.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tarrant County<\/a>, serving about 1,000 men, women and children every night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fort Worth homeless shelter issued a plea for donations after a fire destroyed a storage facility Sunday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,95358,112778,88643,89217],"class_list":["post-431883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-tp-homelessness","tag-tp-fire","tag-tp-fort-worth","tag-tp-tarrant-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}