LA wildfires: Four members of the same family each lose their home

(NewsNation) — While wildfires devastating affluent Los Angeles neighborhoods person dominated headlines, the historical assemblage of Altadena is facing its ain situation arsenic aggregate generations of families suffer their homes to the flames.

Among them are the Williams sisters, whose household exemplifies Altadena's tight-knit assemblage — California's archetypal middle-class Black neighborhood, established during the Great Migration arsenic a sanctuary from Jim Crow laws.

"The assemblage is ace strong, and we ever person been," Eshele Williams said Monday connected NewsNation's "CUOMO." "You're talking astir generational location ownership, but the families that inactive unrecorded successful Altadena, we've ne'er moved."

Now, the area's astir 50,000 residents are a divers mix, with Black and Latino residents comprising fractional the population.

Three Williams sisters, on with their parents who erstwhile fostered section children, mislaid their homes to the fires.

A 4th sister's location remains lasting but is presently inaccessible. The extended household — 17 people, 4 dogs and a 40-year-old household parrot named Hank — are present sharing a edifice room.

Their mother, Matilda Williams, said that household unity is cardinal to their survival.

"Our faith, our unity, definitely, and the emotion we person for each different — erstwhile thing goes wrong, we each stitchery together," she said.

The Williams household has started two GoFundMe pages to rebuild their homes.