We know many of our Five Acres friends and family have been impacted by the fires and we are staying strong with you to ensure our community’s needs are met. We recognize many in our Five Acres family have been affected and continue to support us in this ever-evolving time to provide relief in our recovery. We continue to fulfill the operational needs to keep the children in our care safe and the staff available to support children and our 5A community and families in need. Some updates for you:

As of Friday, January 17^th, our children are back on main campus!  Over 50 individuals, including team members, board of directors, neighbors, vendors, donors, family, and friends, showed up with their gloves, rakes, and brooms to help with recovery day to clean, repair, and warm the campus. Due to our water company being uncertain about the timeline for drinkable water and SoCal gas indicated weeks before gas was restored, we have temporary showers with outside water source and meals secured through end of January as our own equipment is gas powered.

With evacuation orders, return to our location, repairs, and trying to operate without drinkable water and gas requires supplemental supplies and vendors like 6 Portable electric shower units with freshwater tank, and then other supplies to stay operational such as drinkable water dispensers, electric heaters, and gasoline for generators.

We’ve also been continuing to provide mental health services to our 5A children and families, as well as extending to those in our 5A circle vital relief and linkage to service not necessarily covered by our contracts, which has been challenging with 25% of our work force evacuated/home loss; fortunately, the evacuation has dropped to about 10%. While challenged, as so many are right now, our goal and charge is to continue to serve and keep safe our clients under extraordinary circumstances due to this horrific disaster, while at a much higher operational cost during this time.

Your support to Five Acres aids in our efforts that include:

• Costs to support the continued operations of our historical main campus in Altadena to be clean, warm and safe for the children despite still not having potable water or gas.
• Ongoing growing costs to support the care of our foster children in residential care, who were impacted by the Eaton Fire, to stay safe. Any support is appreciated.
• Fund expenses associated in ensuring the continuation of agency programs and operations.

Thank you for helping our foster children, families and 5A community safe in our recovery.  And our heart goes out to all of you.

Fire Relief In-Kind Needs

We are immensely grateful that our wonderful historic main campus and other facilities remain standing. Our children have returned to the main campus. Many of our 5A families and staff remain in evacuation status or have lost their homes and are in need of your help with basic essentials. Fortunately, we have you, our generous supporters, to help make that come true.

How you can help:

1. Drop off new items or gift cards at Five Acres 2. Order items or gift card from our Amazon Relief Wishlist to be delivered or dropped off at our Five Acres site.

Our greatest needs are for items such as:

• Gift Cards (grocery stores, Target, Walmart, Visa®)
• Bottled Water
• Toiletries & Hygiene Products
• Children’s Medicine (Tylenol®, etc.)
• Sleeping bags, Bedding
• Diapers & Wipes
• Luggage & Duffels
• Air purifiers & filters

How & Where to donate new items:

Amazon Delivery or Drop-Off Location Five Acres’ Main Campus 760 W. Mountain View St., Altadena 91001 Monday – Friday from 7 am – 3:30 pm For more information, please contact: Jessica Paz at jpaz@5acres.org / (626) 487-3748 Visit our Fire Relief Amazon Wish list here.