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Emeryville clothes drive overwhelmed with items for LA wildfire victims

By Miles Cooper
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January 13, 2025
Emeryville clothes drive overwhelmed with items for LA wildfire victims
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EMERYVILLE, Calif. (KRON) — The devastation of Southern California’s fires continues, and Bay Space locals and companies linked up in Emeryville to donate items to assist these affected by the fires. Wildfire victims on their path to get well, after flames tore via properties and companies in Los Angeles County.

Like so many organizations stepping in to assist, two Bay Space social media influencers — Jessi Caparella and Natalie Marshall — created a clothes and toiletries donation website for these affected.

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“I’m like, ‘oh we’ll get some people to show up,’” Caparella said. “We’re at gridlock down to the highway, so the entire Bay Area has basically showed up.”

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Vehicles lined the streets to populate Dealer Vic’s Emeryville parking zone — the place the donations had been dropped off.

“LA is being inundated with donations, and everyone seems to be being so useful,” Marshall stated.

A 26-foot transferring truck shall be delivering lots of of things to households affected by the fires: child garments, toiletries, baggage, and different items to households.

Organizers estimate 65 Southern California households shall be helped. Caparella and Marshall say they work with a number of volunteer teams who will manage the objects and ship them to reduction facilities in Los Angeles to distribute to households.

Emeryville clothes drive overwhelmed with items for LA wildfire victimsTwo Bay Space social media influencers, Jessi Caparella and Natalie Marshall, created a clothes and toiletries donation website in Emeryville for the Los Angeles wildfire victims. (KRON4 Picture)

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Lots of the folks donating on Sunday have household pals who stay within the Los Angeles space — like Megan Maples, who donated child provides like unused nursing covers and child clothes.

“As a new mom, I can’t imagine everything my family worked so hard for get taken away,” she said. “So I felt very just heartbroken so many families are experiencing such heartache right now.”

Virgine Depaepe is an area enterprise proprietor who collected and introduced greater than lots of of things inside her two Sprinter vans.

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“Just like the fires, it spread, the donations, that really makes my heart,” Depaepe stated. “I’m positively on adrenaline proper now, my coronary heart is simply so open.”

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The remainder of the donations that didn’t make it on the 26-foot truck, had been despatched to different native websites for folks in want.

“Our hearts go to LA, of course, just know that you’re not alone,” Depaepe said. “I said just one bag at a time.”

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