California wildfires: How you can help those who lost homes in LA fires

Eaton Fire evacuees share positive message [PREV. COVERAGE]

Totress Beasley and her son, Aaron, left with nothing but the clothes on their backs and their home burned, leaving nothing.

LOS ANGELES (CNS) - As major wildfires raged unchecked and destroyed hundreds of structures in the Southland, driven by the worst Santa Ana winds to hit the region in more than a decade, organizations and residents stepped up to the plate Wednesday to help those affected.

The winds were fueling multiple brush fires in the L.A. area, the largest being a nearly 16,000-acre blaze in Pacific Palisades. Another massive brush fire in the Eaton Canyon area above Altadena claimed five lives, while other blazes raged in Sylmar and Acton.

Hundreds of structures were damaged or destroyed in the blazes, with more than 1,000 buildings believed to have been lost in the Palisades Fire alone.

National Weather Service forecasters said the windstorm was the worst to hit the region since 2011.

Here are ways you can help:

To help organizations and schools mentioned during FOX 11's newscasts, click here.
Screen Actors Guild: To support impacted members of the SAG community, donations can be made to the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, which operates a natural disaster relief fund
GoFundMe: Wildfire relief sites include hundreds of residents who lost their homes to the fires and hope to rebuild
The Red Cross-Wildfire Relief: Financial donations to the Red Cross help people affected by disasters
The Salvation Army-Donating Goods: Basic items are always a necessity for disaster survivors. Wildfire survivors most often need masks, bandanas, work gloves, and other protective clothing, bottled water and other packaged drinks, boxes, barrels, and heavy-duty plastic bags, and cleaning items such as rags, mops, brooms, and scrub brushes, among other things
Direct Relief-Helping People Affected by California Wildfires: Direct Relief provides N-95 masks, medicine, and other resources to health care agencies and first responders in wildfire-affected communities
Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation-Make a Donation: help firefighters and paramedics fighting wildfires across Los Angeles