California Wildfire Relief
The Challenge
Climate change is making California’s autumns hotter, drier and longer. About 90 percent of land in the Western states is experiencing moderate to severe drought due to climate change. Every year California wildfires are increasing in frequency and destruction. In 2020 alone wildfires have burned more than 4.3 million acres in California, an area larger then the size of Connecticut and cost $12.079 billion in damages. Wildfires in the state have displaced thousands and destroyed countless homes and businesses. Donations to the CCC will support wildfire relief and recovery efforts in California. Your donation will provide food, water, and shelter to people and animals in need. The CCC will remain vigilant at providing relief and funding innovative solutions through fire season and beyond to support the most impacted communities as well as provide generators to health centers across the State of California.
Californians now battle wildfires on an ongoing basis. Firefighters are stretched thin and are exhausted from the constant bombardment of continuous wildfires. California residents from low-income, rural, and marginalized communities have less access to support, which means they also tend to bear the brunt of the long-term impact. The CCC provides relief to distressed and impacted communities as well as funding innovative solutions for preventing wildfires in California. California’s utility companies plan to continue intentional power shutdowns during periods of extreme fire danger while they address a maintenance backlog that could take decades to resolve. For a health center treating underserved patients on a shoestring margin, a power outage is serious. It means that patients go without visits or access to medication for days on end. Nearly two in five health centers (39%) said they had lost power during grid shut-offs during a wildfire, and 29% were forced to close during outages due to wildfires in the state. Losing access to power has become the new normal during California’s wildfire season and health centers must be able to remain operating.
The Solution
Donations to the CCC will support wildfire relief and recovery efforts in California. The CCC non-profit helps first responders meet survivors' immediate needs for food, fuel, clean water, medicine, and shelter. As needs emerge, we will support longer-term recovery efforts, particularly those in low-income, historically underserved communities. The CCC also funds innovative solutions to reduce dry brush build-up in communities most under threat to Wildfires. In response to power outages, the CCC provides a range of resilient power solutions like backup power units and generators for shelters to health centers across the state.
Where Your Donation Will Go
When you donate to the CCC your donation will be used to:
Provide food and emergency medical supplies to people and animals
Provide generators and batteries to clinics and other health centers across the state.
Support temporary relief and emergency supplies for displaced families.
Provide support to front-line workers.
Funds innovative solutions to clearing dry brush build-up near homes to prevent future Wildfires.