The Latest Updates from the Los Angeles Wildfires

Project HOPE’s Emergency Response Team on the ground continues to distribute hygiene and dignity items, as well as psychological first aid and children's activity kits, PPE, clean water, and medicines, to people affected by the fires at shelters and health clinics. The team is also providing high-quality particulate-filtering masks and air purifiers to reduce smoke inhalation.

The team continues to assess outstanding needs at local health clinics and set up additional mobile medical units to reach displaced and impacted families throughout Los Angeles.

With your support, we can identify and address the most crucial health care needs in the ongoing destruction, including mental health needs. Exposure to natural disasters like this increases the risk of anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), especially among children.

"The kids are not alright. They’re acting differently and they’re under stress," said Chessa Latifi, our Deputy Director of Emergency Preparedness and Response who lives in LA. "The apocalyptic conditions unfolding here in my own community are unlike anything I’ve ever experienced."

Our team is mobilizing mental health support in response to the historic fires and distributing vouchers to connect people affected by the crisis with free counseling and mental health services.

So many of you have reached out asking for ways to help and offer words of support to people impacted by these historic fires. Our team has put together this message wall for those of you who would like to offer words of support to people impacted by the wildfires. Please use it to share a note of encouragement and let Los Angeles know that our community has them in our thoughts and that they’re not in it alone.

We have activated a rare 12X Emergency Match opportunity with a goal of 100 new monthly donors by midnight tomorrow to help us meet the unprecedented needs of families in Los Angeles and other crisis zones around the world. Every new HOPE Partner to join before our deadline will have their monthly gift MATCHED for an ENTIRE YEAR, up to $15,000 thanks to a generous group of supporters. You can make a bigger difference with lasting impact when you make your first monthly gift today.