“We just have to start from the bottom up, but we’re together,” the woman told her distraught five-year-old son.
Malibu residents are coming together as a community to supply resources to those in need unprecedented wildfireBut a California family fears they won’t find a place to live after their home burned in the Palisades Fire.
Marlene Rodriguez and her husband had just 30 minutes to catch their 5-year-old son and 11-month-old daughter before they left Malibu The residence was engulfed in flames.
“My husband said ‘Get up… we have to leave, the fire is on the other side of the hill.’ And I quickly got up and grabbed everything I could, you know, just grabbed our documents and I grabbed my 11-month-old infant and my five-year-old son, and we went straight to the car,” Rodriguez told Fox Business. Told to.
Marlin’s Malibu home before and after the Palisades Fire. (Marlin Rodriquez)
Rodriguez said it is now too dangerous to return to the site of his mobile home. There was nothing left there either. Only the metal structure remains. Like many people, they’re staying in an Airbnb, but after Friday they’re unsure where they’ll go.
“Maybe we’ll go to a shelter. Before we went to the Airbnb, we were at the Ritchie Valens Rec Center. It’s a shelter that the Red Cross put up there,” he said.
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The Rodriguez family is making the best of their situation. The community, with the help of volunteers, has created a platform to get essentials to families in need. (Marlene Rodriguez)
The Rodriguez family is making the best of their situation. The community has created a platform with the help of volunteers needy family To obtain the requirements.
According to Rodriguez, “We’re here for the diapers. We need diapers. So that’s why we’re here. Some people at Airbnb came to our place and left some clothes for the kids.”
Marlin Rodriguez’s 5-year-old son and newborn daughter. (Marlene Rodriguez)
She says her son is still trying to understand what’s happening, and she’s doing her best to console him and convince him that they can start over.
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“Lots of hugs. He’s having a hard time. He’s trying to understand. But it’s really hurtful. And I tell him, ‘Okay, you know what? We’re together. You know, like We’re together and things are going to get better,” she said. “‘And we just have to start from the bottom, but we’re together.’ We should thank God for this and thank God for all those who are trying to bless us.”
the family has one gofundme For those who want to help.