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California chief service officer urges safety, organized volunteering after Pasadena shelter visit
Summary
Josh Friday, California's chief service officer, urged Californians to prioritize safety, sign up for alerts at ready.ca.gov, check on vulnerable neighbors and not self-deploy, after visiting a Pasadena shelter housing evacuated residents including a nursing home.
Josh Friday, California's chief service officer and head of California Volunteers, urged residents to prioritize safety and follow local evacuation orders after visiting a large shelter in Pasadena that was housing evacuated residents, including an entire nursing home.
Friday described the scene at a Pasadena convention center converted to a shelter: "It was, it was harrowing. I was at the there's a convention center in Pasadena, which is turned into a shelter. There was about 12 100 people there, including a nursery an entire nursing home full of seniors who had been evacuated and we're staying there in the evening." He also…
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