Clovis food stand raises $1,000 for two Altadena families with Valley ties

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Leslie Ramirez and her hubby Saul Velasquez are picking up the pieces aft the Eaton Fire successful Altadena ravaged their household home.

A charred framework and a Yeti tumbler are each that is left.

"It's heartbreaking," Ramirez said.

"There's thing left. There's nary schools. There's nary businesses. So galore radical person been displaced."

Five minutes away, the Eaton Fire tore done the location of Leslie's relative and her husband.

It burned the tools of the family's landscaping business.

"It is bittersweet that we enactment truthful hard for each our things, and it's gone successful similar a blink of an eye," Velasquez said.

In request of a hand, the couple's household successful Clovis sprang into enactment connected Friday.

Jose Aparicio and his lad Carlos hosted what they called "Tacos for a Cause," putting household successful the household concern that is Charlie's Tacos and Catering.

"We travel from a large household and during times similar this, you know, you privation to thin connected oregon enactment your family, truthful we came unneurotic and planned a pop-up time to rise immoderate funds to assistance them out," Carlos said.

The begetter and lad served up dozens of tacos, quesadillas, and burritos to anyone who stopped by to amusement their support.

Gladys Guerrero was 1 of them.

"They sent retired our firefighters. People are going to bash what they can, particularly section people," Guerrero said. "But we're truthful acold away, what truly tin we adjacent do? So, erstwhile I spot idiosyncratic section that's trying to rise wealth for their family, I'm going to travel retired present and support."

Support, she did. Guerrero, similar galore different customers, near down a generous currency donation.

"It's not much, honestly," Guerrero said. "It's conscionable a fewer bucks that I had near over, but I deliberation it's going to assistance them overmuch much than it's going to assistance me."

The nutrient basal raised much than a 1000 dollars successful conscionable six hours.

"We're conscionable trying to bash our portion to assistance the ones closest to us," Carlos said.

All the wealth volition present spell to his 2 household members successful need.

We're going to usage it towards housing," Ramirez said. We request to find determination to unrecorded connected a much imperishable basis."

If you privation to assistance those devastated by the fires, Meathead Movers is accepting donated items astatine its Central California locations done the weekend.

Clovis Unified is besides raising wealth for the Red Cross astatine the Reyburn Gym Saturday afternoon.

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