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Project Camp
Project: Camp, which runs pop-up camps for kids impacted by disaster, is currently working toward multiple camps for families who have been evacuated and lost their homes in the Palisades and Eaton fires. You can donate here. They’re also looking for volunteers to staff the camps.
Pasadena Humane
Pasadena Humane is a nonprofit animal shelter and resource center servicing the Greater Los Angeles Area. As of January 8, the organization has taken in over 300 animals due to evacuations. Many have experienced burns and are injured, with several in the ICU and requiring pain medication, wound care, fluid, and oxygen. The shelter is seeking monetary donations as they anticipate more animals coming in needing emergency care. Find more information here.
Team Rubicon
Team Rubicon is a veteran-led humanitarian organization that supports communities before, during, and after crises. Their Greyshirt volunteers are equipped to support wildfire survivors with debris and wind damage clean-up in the wake of disaster. The organization is preparing to clear roads for first responders, and assist with sheltering, feeding, and managing volunteers. You can donate to support their efforts here.
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Red Cross shelters
The Red Cross is providing shelter and support for those currently impacted by the Palisades fire, with an emergency shelter in Westwood Recreation Center (1350 S. Sepulveda, Los Angeles, 90025) for people as well as their domestic family pets. A secondary site, at Pierce College (6201 Winnetka Ave., Woodland Hills, CA 91371), is welcoming larger animals and livestock.
The Red Cross is also sharing wildfire safety instructions and guidance on its site.
Airbnb
Working with 211LA, Airbnb.org is providing free temporary housing for people in the Los Angeles vicinity who has been displaced by fires and needs shelter.
California Community Foundation
With its grants, the California Community Foundation addresses the growing impact of climate change and the worsening wildfire seasons, particularly on marginalized communities. (The foundation utilizes its own research and the CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index to highlight what underserved communities require financial support and assistance.) It’s vital to understand that recovery from such natural disasters can take years, and recognizing the impact on Native American, Muslim, migrant, and non-native English-speaking communities in particular, as well as people with disabilities, children, and the elderly, remains tantamount in the coming times. Read and share their work, and donate.
LA restaurants offering free food
Several Los Angeles restaurants and food outlets are offering free food to responders and people impacted. They include East Hollywood restaurant Bar Etoile and Yeastie Boys Bagels food trucks in Silver Lake, Studio City, Melrose Place, Los Feliz, Venice, DTLA, Highland Park.
Wildfires maps
The National Interagency Fire Center has listed maps with real-time wildland fire situational information, including fire perimeters, weather, and fire detections.
Read critically and share mindfully
In times of evolving crisis, it’s important to cite reputable sources. Follow the LA Times’s ongoing, on-the-ground coverage and the New York Times’s live feed.
