Grass Valley Non-Profit Helping River Fire Victims Now In Need Of Help

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GRASS VALLEY (CBS13) – A Grass Valley non-profit, Hope Outreach, helping occurrence victims is present successful hopeless request of its ain help. Their structure has terrible upwind harm and is present making a desperate plea to the community.

Many successful the country mislaid everything successful the River Fire this summer. Some of them turned to Hope Outreach for a extortion implicit their head. But portion of that extortion conscionable gave mode to upwind damage, and with much terrible upwind headed this way, they’re not definite however overmuch longer they’ll person a home.

Misty Dufour, caput astatine Hope Outreach, said, “You tin inactive spot it benignant of dripping and spot up connected the existent roof.”

Dufour spent the time dumping buckets of h2o aft upwind harm sent rainwater pouring done a spread successful the roof.

“When the rainfall was astatine its highest point, I was changing [buckets] each hour, hr and a half,” said Dufour.

This crumbling location is wherever the non-profit Hope Outreach devoted its resources to helping radical get backmost connected their feet pursuing home abuse, flooding, and astir recently—wildfire destruction.

Aaron Small, 1 of the victims of the River Fire, said that helium ne'er experienced thing similar it before, “It conscionable deed hard and deed [our] location truly quickly.”

Small and his woman mislaid everything successful the River Fire this summer.

They were relieved to find assistance astatine the non-profit, but present they are heartbroken again.

“It’s hard to see. I mean they bash each this helping for radical and they’re conscionable arsenic devastated arsenic america going done a fire,” Small said.

Hope Outreach founder, Kristina Halkyard, said she was astatine a nonaccomplishment for words.

“We’re not putting radical successful [the structure currently], but what bash you archer them?” Halkyard said, done tears.

This enactment was meant to help survivors of earthy disasters but present they are the ones facing their ain struggles.

“We’ve called astir 10 to 15 contractors [but] they’re incapable to travel out, they’re excessively booked,” said caput Dufour.

“Now what bash we do?” said Halkyard. “I deliberation each it would instrumentality is immoderate assistance from radical successful the community.”

The structure is present looking astatine astir $20,000 to $25,000 worthy of repairs. The information that contractors privation astir of that upfront isn’t making it immoderate easier.

Unfortunately, each of Hope Outreach’s funds person gone consecutive to occurrence victims.

Hope Outreach is presently accepting donations online and they accidental each dollar counts.

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