Sunday, November 18, 2018

Helping California Fire Victims


The Santa Monica Mountains are blackened by the Woolsey Fire near Malibu, California on November 14, 2018. David McNew/AFP/Getty Images

It's been playing out in the media for over a week now.  The images, no matter how many you've seen, still shock.  As with our fellow Americans in Puerto Rico, North and South Carolina, Florida, and other places that have seen devastating natural disasters in the past year, help for the victims of the California fires is needed beyond the ability of any one group or organization.  The Camp Fire in Northern California and the Woolsey Fire in Southern California are responsible for the deaths of 79 people (and counting), with over 1,000 still missing and over 14,000 structures destroyed.

Two places to start in identifying resources to help the victims of that ongoing disaster in California are here and here.

More images of the fire damage throughout California here and here.

East Ave Church in Chico has become a makeshift evacuation center. Cayce Clifford/ HuffPost