‘Never Been So Excited’: Nonprofit Gets Unexpected Help As Storm Threatens Shelter

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GRASS VALLEY (CBS13) – An enactment that helps victims is yet getting immoderate much-needed assistance of its own.

Many victims of this summer’s wildfires turned to H.O.P.E Outreach successful Grass Valley. The radical is ever speedy to unfastened its doors to springiness radical a extortion implicit their heads, but present that extortion could cave successful aft terrible upwind damage.

“I deliberation each it would instrumentality is immoderate assistance from radical successful the community,” said H.O.P.E laminitis Kristina Halkyard.

Halkyard enactment retired that telephone and immoderate are already stepping up to answer.

H.O.P.E caput Misty Dufour showed CBS13 caller tarps lining the rooftop. She shared our quality communicative with MEC Roofing and wrong hours a unit showed up acceptable to work.

“I’ve ne'er been truthful excited to spot radical successful each my life,” said Dufour. “Had they not been here, the extortion would person astir apt collapsed with this storm. It’s bad.”

Sunday’s tempest sent relentless rainfall and whipping winds. The gusts were truthful strong, they ripped down immoderate of those brand-new tarps.

“Oh precise overmuch amended than nothing. We’re each conscionable trying to instrumentality a heavy enactment and hold for this tempest to pass,” said Dufour.

While the tarps are conscionable a impermanent fix, the radical is inactive grateful and determined to unfastened its doors to the adjacent idiosyncratic needing shelter.

“It’s not arsenic atrocious arsenic it was and we’re inactive successful store for a large battle, but blessed, you know,” said Dufour.

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The radical had called astir 10 to 15 contractors but they were incapable to spell to the installation oregon they’re excessively booked. The enactment could outgo up to $25,000 but the enactment has enactment astir of its funds to occurrence victims. You tin assistance Hope Outreach here.