Rescue Mission still in need of winter shelter following kitchen fire

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An August kitchen fire has left the Fort Collins Rescue Mission's primary shelter on Jefferson Street unusable.

The organization is still searching for an overnight shelter space for the upcoming winter.

A temporary shelter at the winter overflow shelter on Mason Street is housing some people, but staff have had to turn people away more than 400 times due to a lack of space.

The Fort Collins Rescue Mission is still searching for additional overnight shelter space for this winter after a kitchen fire made the current shelter unusable.

A fire damaged the Fort Collins Rescue Mission's building on the corner of Jefferson and Linden streets in August, displacing the 82 people staying there at the time. The fire's official cause was determined to be an electrical issu