The Douglas Area Food Bank announced earlier this week that its partnership with the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona had ended. Now, it's closing its doors.

"We have no food," said Douglas Area Food Bank President, Javier Fimbres. "You can go in the walk-in, and it's empty.

No food means that the hundreds of people who visit the Douglas Food Bank have to find help elsewhere.

I had four or five people come up because today was a day for giving out food," Fimbres said. "Our tripod and our windows are blank because we don't have food to give out.

Chirs Firmage, public relations manager for the Community Food Bank, said they received multiple "civil rights" complaints, prompting the termination of the partnership. He was unable to elaborate further.

Any complaint could jeopardize

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