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One Year Later: What the Eaton Fire Took, What It Didn’t

Today marks one year since the Eaton Fire. I’ve gone back and forth on whether I wanted to write about it at all. Part of me wants to let the date pass quietly, like a storm that already moved through. Another part of me knows that silence can feel like erasure—like pretending nothing changed when, in reality, everything did. So this is me choosing to acknowledge it. A year ago, fire tore through my
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For Us, By Us: Supporting Altadena’s Historical Black Community

Hello Everyone! As the Eaton fire slowly extinguishes, the devastation remains. Many Black Altadena residents still need a lot of help and support to rebuild and survive. While many of the white Altadena residents have already met their gofundmes, the gofundmes for Black residents still need to be funded. Here is a link to many gofundmes for Black Altadena residents. Many of the residents have been there for decades
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More Eaton Fire gofundmes to Support!

Hello Everyone, With a heavy heart, I'm writing to include more Altadena/Eaton Fire gofundmes. There are a lot of families who can use the love and support. Please, instead of donating water and clothing (there is more than plenty of those to go around), donate and share the gofundme link instead. There are many families who can use the support right now. There are many families who attend my
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How You Can Help Altadena Rebuild

Everybody all together now! How You Can Help Altadena Rebuild I have deep ties in Altadena, which is just north of Pasadena Let's go! Altadena is a hard place to describe: it's hipster. It's wealthy. It's middle-class. It's poor. It's everything. And it's burned down. Bear's school is in Altadena, and I often did a lot of work and volunteering in Altadena, so I was there often. And it's still unbelievable what happened