With the help of non-profit Emergency RV, Los Angeles County Firefighters are donating RVs as temporary housing for firefighters who lost homes in Maui.
More than 20 firefighters lost their homes while fighting wildfires in Maui. Now firefighters in Los Angeles are reaching out to help by donating Recreational Vehicles to displaced firefighters and their families on the island., the non-profit facilitating the donation. He told Colorado Public Radio that he started the charity five years ago, when a wildfire largely destroyed the town of Paradise in Northern California.
"People want to help, they just often don't know how to help," he said."We kind of stumbled on this perfect transitional emergency housing solution in the form of RVs back in 2018 with the Camp Fire, and we've been helping following natural disasters ever since." Faircloth says when the fires hit Maui, they immediately started looking for RVs to donate that were already on the island, but there weren't any available. It didn't seem like there would be a way to get RVs out to Maui, but the California Fire Foundation stepped in to help. They introduced Faircloth to some of the firefighters who lost their homes, and found a ship to send the RVs on. Faircloth just had to get them to San Diego for shipment.
When he put the word out that his charity was looking for RVs to send as temporary housing for firefighters who lost their homes in Maui, Faircloth says people were quick to respond. They ended up with eight RVs, five of which came from Los Angeles County firefighters.California Fire Foundation
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