Fresno native volunteering with Red Cross in Southern California

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Thousands of radical near with adjacent to thing arsenic fires proceed to pain successful LA County.

"The stories of proceeding that they person nary wherever to spell I conscionable can't wrapper my caput astir that," Red Cross unpaid Elvia Pacheco-Reyna said.

Pacheco-Reyna is simply a Fresno autochthonal deployed to the southland to assistance those impacted successful Pasadena.

"Some radical are coming successful saying they haven't eaten successful days," Pacheco-Reyna said. "They provender them."

She says implicit 500 radical are successful the largest dorm country with 3 different smaller dorms astatine the site-many seeking refuge with thing but the apparel connected their back.

"We inquire them if there's immoderate apparel they privation and instrumentality arsenic overmuch arsenic they privation and they evidently person thing with them," she explained.

The Red Cross has been bringing successful much resources passim the week from nutrient to hygiene products.

"I retrieve the archetypal time that they were capable to shower, you should've seen the blessed faces, due to the fact that they hadn't showered successful 4 days," Pacheco-Reyna said.

She is simply a retired registered caregiver and says she's been trying everything she tin to beryllium determination for the victims, including being a person to a pistillate who's near with her car, purse and dogs.

"I told her spell thrust to the beach, find a bully quiescent spot for you and your dogs, effort to slumber due to the fact that she hasn't slept and she did it," she recalled. "She came backmost wholly refreshed."

In stressful times similar these, it's important to instrumentality attraction of your intelligence health.

"But the precise archetypal motion that you're starting to announcement thing antithetic wrong you is the champion clip to question care," Dr. Jesus Rodriguez with Kaiser Permanente successful Fresno said.

He says uncovering a enactment radical could assistance woody with the symptom and trauma.

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