{"id":31015,"date":"2018-11-20T18:17:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T23:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/creator\/creator\/?p=31015"},"modified":"2020-02-26T14:23:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T19:23:45","slug":"during-california-wildfires-delivering-hot-meals-a-place-to-stay-and-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/ideas\/community-stories\/member-spotlight\/during-california-wildfires-delivering-hot-meals-a-place-to-stay-and-hope","title":{"rendered":"During California wildfires, delivering meals, housing and hope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tim Kilcoyne never sees most of the people for whom he cooks every day. The thousands of meals that are prepared and packed under his watchful eye are delivered to shelters for people displaced by the wildfires that have devastated California. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But he knows first-hand what it\u2019s like to be in their position. Last December, he was one of more than 100,000 people forced to evacuate to a nearby shelter when a wildfire swept through Ventura County, just west of Los Angeles. While waiting 10 days until he could return home, Kilcoyne, the owner of <\/span>Scratch Sandwich Counter<\/span><\/a>, was eager to find a way to put his skills to good use.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He connected with<\/span> World Central Kitchen<\/span><\/a>, an organization that travels the globe to provide hot meals to people in emergency situations. Soon he was cooking meals in a borrowed commercial kitchen for his neighbors, who had also been evacuated, and the first responders who had arrived from across the country to battle the blaze.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chef Tim Kilcoyne supervises meals prepared at the temporary facility run by World Central Kitchen in Camarillo, California.\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Over the past year he\u2019s taken time off from his sandwich shop to work with the organization, leading teams of volunteers after Hurricane Florence destroyed parts of Florida and the Carolinas, and after the <\/span>Kilauea volcano leveled entire neighborhoods in Hawaii. Now he\u2019s back on his home turf of California, where wildfires are once again roaring through his county.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn each location, it has been tough dealing with the devastation,\u201d says Kilcoyne. He was on a break from where he and a regular team of about a dozen people were dishing out meals at <\/span>Casa Pacifica Centers for Children and Families, a treatment center for at-risk children a few miles from the fires<\/span>. \u201cBut it has been amazing to see the communities come together.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

World Central Kitchen, which is based at<\/span> WeWork Universal North<\/span><\/a> in Washington, D.C., has fewer than 10 full-time staffers, but it\u2019s been able to serve more than 4.8 million meals since it was founded by renowned chef Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s in 2010. Last year, after Hurricane Maria left most of Puerto Rico without water or electricity, the organization had teams on the ground that provided 3 million meals to suddenly homeless citizens. In California, where wildfires are burning across the state, it\u2019s serving thousands of meals a day.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A volunteer loads meals into a truck bound for emergency shelters around Ventura County, California.\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Jeanette Morelan, <\/span>World Central Kitchen\u2019s<\/span> communications and marketing manager, says that many of the organization\u2019s volunteers start out as people in need. <\/span>\u201cWe meet people in these disaster situations and they become part of our family,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fighting disasters on several fronts<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In California, the extent of the wildfires is astounding. <\/span>In Butte County, less than 100 miles north of Sacramento, the Camp Fire has burned 140,000 acres, taking with it over 10,000 structures, including almost the <\/span>entire town of Paradise<\/span><\/a>. It\u2019s the most destructive and deadliest wildfire in California history, with 73 people dead and almost 700 missing.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The wildfires spreading through California are clearly visible from the temporary facility run by World Central Kitchen.\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Woolsey and Hill Fires in Los Angeles and Ventura counties have altogether burned more than 100,000 acres, destroying nearly 500 structures, with tens of thousands more in danger.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To make meals for the hundreds of families displaced by the fires, World Central Kitchen <\/span>partners with local catering companies and other businesses with commercial food-preparation facilities. It also works with local governments, police forces, and fire departments to identify people in need. Many evacuees have gone for weeks without a hot meal.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The menu depends on the location but leans toward hearty dishes like macaroni and cheese. \u201cIt\u2019s a bit of everything,\u201d Morelan says. \u201cIt\u2019s the community\u2019s idea of comfort food.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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World Central Kitchen often<\/span> works with other relief organizations, including the American Red Cross, to feed people at shelters.<\/span> The<\/span> Red Cross has more than 500 people responding to the crisis in California, supporting evacuation centers and setting up shelters. In addition to providing places to stay, it offers medical care and mental health counseling to help people get on the path to recovery.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One test facing the Red Cross is finding enough volunteers to work in high-need areas, especially during the holiday season. \u201cIt\u2019s incredibly challenging, particularly in a community that is so hard-hit, to manage to find the workforce to then provide that response,\u201d says Hilary Palotay, a senior associate at the Red Cross. She works from an office at<\/span> WeWork 1601 Vine St<\/span><\/a> in Hollywood.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Palotay points out that the Red Cross isn\u2019t on the ground in only California. Major relief efforts are still underway in the Carolinas, where Hurricane Florence came ashore in September, and in the Florida Panhandle, where Hurricane Michael made landfall in October. Many people volunteering in these areas have lost their homes as well.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Volunteers with the relief organization Nechama get their assignment for the day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe hurricane-affected regions have developed a sort of resiliency through a cyclical hurricane season happening every year,\u201d says Palotay. \u201cThat\u2019s their community, and I just see people stand up left and right.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Help comes from far away<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Not all the organizations responding to these hard-hit areas are based in the U.S.<\/span> IsraAID<\/span><\/a>, an Israeli nonprofit started in 2001, deploys volunteers around the world. It\u2019s working in North Carolina, Florida, and Texas.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA lot of people see disasters happen and think there\u2019s no way to make a change or help people,\u201d says Niv Rabino, head of mission for IsraAID. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After wildfires roared through California\u2019s Sonoma County last fall, IsraAID\u2014which has an office at<\/span> WeWork Galleria Office Tower I<\/span><\/a> in Houston\u2014set up shop in a local synagogue. The organization offered mental health programs, including one to help young people deal with trauma and loss in their lives.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nechama<\/span><\/a>, a nonprofit guided by the Jewish principle of <\/span>tikkun olam<\/em><\/span><\/i>, or acts of loving kindness, is at work on several fronts, including doing hurricane relief in South Carolina, Florida, Texas, and Puerto Rico. Volunteers are also working in flood-ravaged areas of Minnesota and Wisconsin. Another team will soon deploy to California.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Kaplan, the group\u2019s executive director, says that although Nechama is a faith-based organization, a majority of its staff and volunteers are not Jewish.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have church groups, we have nonreligious volunteers, we get groups from mosques,\u201d says Kaplan, based at<\/span> WeWork The National<\/span><\/a> in Chicago. \u201cThey all come together to work with us because we all have a shared belief that we have a responsibility to help our neighbors, to bring healing to the world, to comfort those who are in mourning.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much of Kaplan\u2019s team focuses on \u201cmuck and gut\u201d jobs\u2014emptying outhouses that have been damaged by wind and rain. Other are repairing and rebuilding homes to make them safe, dry, and \u201cshelterable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When he was supervising his team in Texas, Kaplan met a couple in their 60s who survived Hurricane Harvey by sitting on top of their bed with their dogs, hoping the flood waters wouldn\u2019t rise above their heads. The water had come in through one side of their house and broken through the other. \u201cBasically there was a river moving through their home,\u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A year later, their house was still in shambles. But Nachama was able to make it habitable again by rebuilding it in a matter of days. \u201cYou could just see the burden lifting from their shoulders,\u201d Kaplan says. \u201cYou could see how happy they were from just this simple act of support.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The feeling of a job well done is what makes it worth it for Kaplan and his team. \u201cWhen you\u2019re physically working on someone\u2019s home and they\u2019ve lost everything and they\u2019ve lost hope, you can bring them home, you can bring them comfort, you can bring them that healing that is needed,\u201d he says. \u201cYour passion comes out really quickly. You don\u2019t do this work and put up with all the uncomfortableness that comes with it if you\u2019re not passionate about the work that you\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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