Cars lined up outside Ottumwa's Knights of Columbus building on Thanksgiving Day to receive a free Thanksgiving meal.

The meals included a variety of Thanksgiving dinner staples such as turkey, dressing, gravy, vegetables, a roll, and a dessert.

Volunteers could be seen running down the sidewalk to grab and handout the next meal to people in their cars.

Delivery drivers were working nonstop, leaving as fast as they arrived to deliver more meals to homes.

Event organizer Pam Ward expected to exceed their goal of handing out a total of 2,400 meals.

“It's been really busy, we have had amazing volunteers that have done almost 2,400 meals and were still going. I hope people have had a great Thanksgiving meal with us today,” said Ward.