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California Volunteers mobilizes service corps after devastating Los Angeles wildfires
Summary
California's chief service officer says the California Service Corps has been deployed to shelters, food banks and donation centers in the wake of Los Angeles wildfires, and announced a public campaign urging donations and volunteer help while warning about misinformation.
Josh Friday, California's chief service officer and head of California Volunteers, said the state has deployed members of the California Service Corps to help with shelter operations, food distribution and donation centers after this month's wildfires in the Los Angeles region.
"I was there on the first night of the fire, and serving 1,200 people, because of our, our service corps members helping out," Friday said during a Jan. 22 interview on KQED's Political Breakdown. He described volunteers staffing Red Cross shelters in Pasadena, assisting food banks serving tens of thousands of residents and staffing YMCA donation-distribution centers.
The deployment follows a larger statewide response that Friday said included Cal Fire, the National Guard…
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