January 18, 2025 • 29 mins
Amy King wraps up a powerful live broadcast from the Dream Center LA by talking with Stella Reed, Executive Director of the Dream Center, about the vital work they’re doing to support wildfire victims. Amy provides listeners with actionable ways to donate and make a difference for those impacted by the fires.
Marsha Green of Wild Fork Foods joins to discuss their innovative food concept and how they’re contributing to relief efforts by donating food to those in need. The hour concludes with a cross to Tiffany Hobbs to preview what’s coming up on The Tiffany Hobbs Show.
Marsha Green of Wild Fork Foods joins to discuss their innovative food concept and how they’re contributing to relief efforts by donating food to those in need. The hour concludes with a cross to Tiffany Hobbs to preview what’s coming up on The Tiffany Hobbs Show.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, it's Neil Savedra. You're listening to kfi EM six
forty the four Report on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hey, I'm Amy king in for Neil Savedra. Feeling a
little under the weather, so I'm sitting in for him today.
And normally he would be sitting here at dream Center LA,
but I get to do it instead. And I got
to tell you this is a this is a very
special place. And uh, we we've talked about how we
get a little jaded living in Los Angeles and so
(00:28):
fast paced and you don't always know your neighbors and
not everybody so friendly. But the outpouring of love and
support that we've seen since these fires broke out, it's
just like wow, I just I'm I'm a little gobsmacked,
you know, like, like, how do you even explain it?
How many people have opened up their pocketbooks and opened
up their homes and their cupboards and they're you know,
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in their spare rooms and said, hey, or I don't
need this. We've got people who've lost everything and they
need it more than I do. We want to welcome
Dreams Center LA's executive director for Leadership Development, Es Stella
read thanks for stopping by this afternoon, Stella. So, Stella,
I want to ask you, well, first of all, I
want to talk about the line, because we've been talking
(01:12):
about this all day, that there are two different lines
here at Dream Center LA. There's a line where you
can come and drop stuff off, and we just had
a U haul van, yeah, come by. They loaded that
thing up and there was there was no space in there.
It was loaded up and they came and dropped all
of that off for the people who are affected by
these fires. The second line is the line of people
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who are taking donations or you know, like taking the
things that have been donated. They're picking up. And when
I was here a couple of days ago, the line
was out the parking lot, down the street, around the block,
and down another block.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
It's bigger now, yeah, we are probably, I mean we
are multiple blocks at this point. I think it's Saturday.
Also think those that are impacted by the fires have
been thinking through losing their homes as well as having
to keep their jobs, and so they're working, and so
I think today was a day that we're seeing many
people come through that we're having conversations with that have
(02:14):
had the time to say this is.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
What I need.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
The first few days was a lot of shock and
getting their families to safety.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
That's what I was going to ask. I mean, I
think that people are probably just now. I mean, yep,
maybe it's not worn out, but it's starting to work
there are it is?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I think I think they're entering the stage of a
little bit of the shock is wearing awesome, and now
it's what do I need? What do I need now
to begin the process of rebuilding my life in the
middle of being displaced, Many or finding where they're going
to land, whether it's family members. A lot of the
people through this line are finding friends and family.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
People are opening up homes.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Many people are honestly sacrificing their own homes and rooms
to provide places for people that they find and meet,
and also a lot of family and friends to live
with them. So what we're doing here is just honestly
trying our best right now to respond immediately to those needs.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Whether right.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
We had a family come through just a few minutes
ago and it was betting it was all the shampoo's
conditioners faced. I mean, they lost everything. So you're literally
looking through every cupboard. If you were to go to
your bathroom and think of what your normal routine is.
They need everything. You look in your closet, they need everything.
There isn't one thing that most people don't need right now.
And then if you're a mom, or you're a dad,
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or you're a caretaker maybe for one of your parents,
like you're thinking through not just yourself, but so many things.
And many have not just lost their homes, they've lost
their jobs, and so they're trying to think through all
of that together. So I don't even think we've scratched
the surface of the reality of the devastation of both
of the palisades and the eating fire at this.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Point, the implications of all of this. So you said,
how deep it goes? Because like you said, you know,
maybe it's someone who cleans houses for a living, Yes,
and all those houses are gone, Carl Landscape or a
garlt escape gardeners, the people that work and around the neighbor's.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Correct, It's really impacting a lot of different types of
infrastructures for these communities. In these neighborhoods and restaurants, salons
you have. These are people's livelihoods. And I've so it's
it is just devastating, and it's blocks upon blocks upon blocks.
It's not like we're talking one street. This is full communities.
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And so my even me, my own kids, we live
in a neighboring community of Altadena. And our soccer teams,
we're families on our soccer teams are Our school district
is two hundred and fifty families alone. That's just one
school district of families, and then twenty five teachers that
have lost everything. And that is one small little area
connected to Alta Dina, and it is just compounding and compounding.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
The need is huge.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So if you're wondering as you're giving, and you're constantly listening,
listening on Arab what.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Am I giving to this is a long road.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
The immediate response right now of the essentials of providing water,
food supplies, for hygiene supplies, for your betting, just those
simple things socks, underwear, all that makes such a difference.
This is the first stage of relief, and this part
is huge, But the second stage is actually now listening
to the stories and seeing how we are able to
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come alongside these families piece by piece, and neighborhood by
neighborhood and school schools have been burned down.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
And so we hear you're opening up school inside. We
are in our process right now.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
There's a school, there's a school that's outside in Altadena
that burned down that we are in the processes that
we walked. I sat with them yesterday and we sat
for a few hours and we walked all over and said,
with this work, with this work, what if we did
this area over here in the Dream Center is just
doing everything we can to accommodate and rearrange spaces. We're
beautifully central, okay, right here in downtown to respond the
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way we do because we have an infrastructure to respond
that way, and we're just doing whatever we can. So
if it's saying, hey, put up some spaces here so
these kids can come together and see some normality, then
we want to do that. And so yeah, we're in
the process of doing that, trying to get them chromebooks
to get going, getting classroom space for them to come
and just get to come together and be able to
see friends and some familiar faces. And honestly, so these
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teachers as well, this is their livelihoods well, and like you.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Said, the teachers are affected.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
There are teachers.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
There are teachers there's teachers lost their homes and now
they're trying to figure out, well, I have a job.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I mean, there's just so so many.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Layers to this that I think now that the shock
of what you've seen of the fires and the smoke
in the air, we're starting to see a lot of
that slowed down and we here the Dream Center. You
saw the fires from so many different directions. Now I
feel like that that shock, we're not in probably.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
That specific type of trauma mode anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I think it's settling in honestly now with the stories
of how big this is. And it's not everybody's been
saying this, but it isn't a sprint. It is a marathon,
and it's multiple marathons at this point. And I think
the Dream Center we're just trying to us and the
team and everyone in our entire executive team. We're just
bracing ourself and pacing ourselves, and we just keep saying,
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let's listen well right now so that we respond well.
And that's what we're doing, and we're just we're getting
lists and lists of everybody we need and really looking
through what is the best way as we every day
wake up, how do we respond to this situation and
this disaster, and how is how can we make the
biggest impact?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
And this is what Dream Center does. They're going to
hold their hands and they're going to help them as
they start rebuilding and recovering from these wildfires. It's not
going to be today, it's not going to be done
next week or even next month. It's going to be.
Like you said, you're in it for the long haul.
So the immediate thing you can do now is make
a donation. If you can do that, come down here please,
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twenty three to oh one Bellevue in Los Angeles. We're
right in Echo Park. Just put it in ways and
it'll take you right down here. We've got we've got
room in line and we have big cars, little cars
like I mentioned that you all pulled up. We've got
pickup trucks loaded to the gill. I have a friend
of mine who lives in Posta Robles, and she said
one of her neighbors just brought a truckload massed up
to drove down from Haserobols and people are driving in
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from Las Vegas. I heard somebody else drove sixteen hours
to bring a truckload of supplies. It's just amazing, but
they need more, and like you said, the need isn't
going to be over tomorrow or the next day. So
we're here until seven tonight at LA dream Center at
Dream Center LA twenty three oh one Bellevue. We would
love to have you coming down make a donation. You
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can also make donations online add on our website KFI
AM six forty dot com slash donate. We're going to
be right back. We are live at the Dream Center LA.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
You're listening to the Fork Report with Nil Savedra on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It's Sammy King in for Neil Savader today. We are
broadcasting live at the Dream Center LA twenty three oh
one Bellvue in Echo Park. We're here until seven o'clock
or dream Center LA is here until seven o'clock. We're
here with you until five o'clock. And the line of
cars that I've been telling you about all afternoon has
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not stopped. And that's the line of people who have
been affected by these fires. And it's around the block,
and then it's around another block, and around another block
and around another block. These people in some instances lost everything.
Like we talked with Brady early who sat there and
(09:23):
tried to fight the fire himself on Tuesday night and
there he is walking by and he decided, I can't
do it. I got to get out and save my life.
He got the shirt on his back and that's it.
His wife and his daughter got out, but that's it,
and he drove away as his house burned down. That's
the stories that we're hearing. We're hearing from people who
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had ninety seconds to get out wearing sweatpants and a sweatshirt.
That's it. And as we were just talking with Stella,
the people they don't have basic needs and that's where
you come in. So we're taking your donations again today
until seven o'clock and then they're gonna do a little
regroup and take a little breath themselves next tomorrow and
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then they'll be back on Monday noon to seven. The
need's not going away. So if you can't make it
down today, we would love to have you come down
any day next week again from noon to seven, and
that's at twenty three oh one Bellevue and Echo Park.
You can also make a donation at KFI AM six
forty dot com slash donate. Also, if you haven't seen
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what this all looks like. You can do that. We've
got posts up on Instagram. You can check out my
Instagram at Amy Kking or at Kfi's at KFI Am
six forty and you can see what they're doing. And
I will tell you that I came down to do
an out and about segment for a wake up call
earlier this week and there's more stuff here now than
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there was before. And that's what's so beautiful is that
more people continue to donate because, like we were just
talking with Stella about the need's not going to go
away in a week. It's going to be long term.
And also I wanted to tell you about a few
other places that are helping out, and that's some of
our restaurants around southern California that are chipping in. And
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so here's a couple more of the deals that they're
doing where they're donating. So you can go and have
a breakfast burrito at Bites and Bashes Cafe and Lomita
they have I hear delicious breakfast burritos. They're doing a
brunch time fundraiser tomorrow. They're donating one of the proceeds
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to LA Fire Firefighters. Also eat free and if you want,
you can go down there and you can buy a buyer,
buy a firefighter a burrito for future delivery. There's the
collaborative fundraiser in Highland Park featuring Biria Pa La Courda. Okay,
I can't say a lot of this stuff that they're
they're starting at. Their offerings will include beardy a brisket,
(12:00):
oh Yum, Berkshire Carnites, cornbread, and Agua de Jamaica. I'm
sure I'm saying this wrong. I'm not very good with
my Spanish, but anyway, they're doing that starting at ten
am tomorrow and then I love this at Triple seven
Alameda Street, Los Angeles. Have you been to Schmorgesborg in
downtown where they have all the different food carts and
(12:21):
stuff so yummy. They're doing a fundraiser tomorrow on their
grand reopening day to address the needs of the community
special focus on supporting those impacted. Attendees will be able
to support large relief funds and vendors and their families
and friends who've been affected. All profits from the bar
sales are going to go to World Central Kitchen and
American Red Cross. That's from ten to four tomorrow. And
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then here's another one. The folks at Lasita in downtown
La are holding the Bar Tenders Club Wildfire Support Drive.
It's on Monday, January twentieth. Bring a food item. They
have a whole a bunch of items listed on their website,
like protein based snacks, peanut butter, nut butters crackers, peanut
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butter crackers, juice crackers, trail mixed fruit snacks, energy bars,
pop top tuna, pop top chicken juice boxes, those kinds
of things. If you bring in a food item, you'll
get a free drink in return. Ooh, what a deal.
And I love a good baked sale. Baked sale with
Nice Coffee in Highland Park. Thirty La bakers are going
to join Nice Coffee at Carla's fresh Market in Highland Park.
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That's at two forty eight North Avenue fifty and that
is on January twenty fifth, So see this not only
today tomorrow, it's going into next week. A baked sale
is going to raise money for World Central Kitchen. Bakers
selling treats will include Emily Lori, Mrissa Feldman and if
that's from ten to one, and that's at Carla's fresh
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Market in Highland Park. So cool that all these restaurants
are doing these things to help and then donating their
proceeds because again, these restaurants and these bakeries in all
these places, they don't all have tons and tons and
tons of extra money, so they're donating part of what
they make to help the people who've been affected by
the wildfires. It's a beautiful thing in a heartbreaking situation.
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We're going to come back. We are going to be
talking with Marsha Green from Wildfork. Wait till you hear
what Wildfork has done. And if you haven't heard of Wildfire, Wildfork,
they are a friend of the Fork Report. Neil Savadra's
talked to them several times. So we're going to be
talking to Marcia find out what they're doing to help
the fire victims. And it's pretty amazing. It's pretty amazing.
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In fact, everything all of you guys are doing is
pretty amazing. So thank you. If you can stop by,
we would love to see you. We're here until five,
they're taking donations until seven. We are on location at
Dream Center, LA.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
You're listening to The Fork Report with Nil Savedra on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I'm Amy King, sitting in for Neil today and today
I am sitting at Dream Center LA and watching one
of the most beautiful things ever, and that's Angelino's coming
together to help other Angelinos. We just had another car
just pulled in, and the cars, the stream of cars
pulling in with their trucks and their SUVs loaded to
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the rafters to drop off donations is astounding. And the
palettes and palettes of food and water and sports drinks
and other supplies and diapers and paper towels and all
that kind of stuff is just amazing. And then also
on the other amazing side is this again, this non
stop stream of cars of people who are accepting the
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donated items and they're they're receiving the donated items because
they've lost everything and they need your help, and you
guys are it's uh, it's really cool to see. It's
very hard to see because you know there's but it's
very cool to see because you know, LA is coming
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together and we love that. Here's somebody else who's helping out.
And it's a friend of Fork Report. It's a Marsha
Green with Wild Fork. Good morning or good morning, it's
almost evening, Good afternoon, Marcia.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Good afternoon, Amy. Thanks, Oh thanks to me. I hope
you're still better. Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yes, I can hear you. I can hear you. So Marcia,
before we talk about what all you're doing in response
to the wildfires, I want to kind of let people
know what Wildfork is if they're not familiar with it.
What is Wildfork?
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Wild Fork is a pretty unique meat and seafood market.
What we do is we blast freeze our products with
sills and the vitamins and minerals, keeping your products pressure
and longer and more flavorful. We have anything from exotic
meat and seafood from around the world. We have everyday item,
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milk prep and even kosher thirtified. So it's a very
revolutionary type of grocery store.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
So you are probably uniquely suited to help with this
wildfire relief. So we hear you've donated a full truckload
twenty four palettes of food to the Dream Center Foundation.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
We did, you know, we realized when this all happened,
and having stores between La down into Socaw and Orange
County and seed Is, you know, all of us were
impacted by this terrible tragedy, so we knew we had.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
To step up.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
So we did. And what we did is we've donated
enough food that we're going to be able to not
only help the people today but in the future as
we want to keep on feeding people as they build
and rebuild Marshall.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
That's beautiful thing.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Yeah, I had comed up with the Dream Center, and
then a Bound Food stepped in with us and gave
us portable freezers to help us to stay in the
momentum of donating, and the whole organization stepped in. It's
a huge blessing for everybody affected. So we're here for
the long run. We're here to help.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I bet there's a lot of people who are very
thankful to hear that. And you, guys, this is no
small thing donating. It's valued at like fifty thousand dollars
the donation, So this is big. And like we've talked about,
I mean, it's not like you have an extra fifty
thousand laying around, but when your community needs you, you
guys stepped up and there's that. It's just that's big time.
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So hats off to you, Marcia. Tell us again, also,
you're doing something else that is super cool. It's called
a give back. Tell us what a give back is.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Yeah, thank you for bringing that up. So we're doing
a fundraiser in all of our stores called give Back.
Anybody who wants support moving forward for the rest of
this year. Were any church, school, charity, any foundation that
needs help building anything in the community. You do, show
up one of our eleven locations in southern California, ask
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for a manager and tell them you want to book
a giftback with that. What we're going to do is
for that day, as portions of sales from eight am
to mee pm goes back to that charity, and we
give back fifteen percent of our sales. So it's an
ongoing thing.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
That is so cool is that you said it's ongoing.
Is that something that you've been doing for a while or.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
As we started it? We started at the end of
last year, but when this happened, we decided to really
ramp it up and really do something more with us.
So we really castlehold this year into making it a
bigger program. But fifteen percent from the store sales from
eight am to nine for that specific charity, that portion
goes back to them. It's a huge support that keeps
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giving back.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
That is amazing give backs and that's exactly what you know,
what we've seen so many people doing. They're giving back
to their community and giving back to help others who
need them now. Like we were talking to a gentleman
who's literally lost his house. He watched is his house
burned down and he said, I just I hope that
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I can help other people one day once I'm back
on my feet. I mean, it's just it's amazing to
see the spirit of these people who have been devastated
and lost everything. Marsha Green, where can we find more
information about not only the givebacks when you go into
the stores, but about Wildfork And maybe maybe you want
to order a bunch of food from Wildfork.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Yeah, go to Wildforkfoods dot com. You can find our
twelve locations between laoc And and Sanitas. Everything is on
our website. Just look for a store location and trust me,
the managers all of us at Wildfork and SOCAW we
all support the community. So oh, you going today's give
back and we got you. We'll take care of.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
You, okay. Marsha Green with Wildfork, thank you so much
for your time. We love what you're doing. Thanks for
helping to give back, and thanks for that truckload us
applies to a Dream Center LA.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
Thank you for supporting the community. We're very happy and
proud that we're able to do this, and thank you
for having me.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
All right, thanks Marsha. See amazing people coming together to
help their neighbors and their friends and people who don't
even live in their community, like we had. I mentioned
a friend of mine had one of her neighbors drove
a truck down from Pasta Robles with a truckload of
donations for the people who need it. We are here
taking those donations. Would love for you to stop by.
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We've got a couple more hours today. We're here until
seven o'clock taking donations at twenty three oh one Bellevue
in Echo Park that's in Los Angeles, and you can
just pull on up and they'll shuttle you through the
line and you can drop everything off and see what
an amazing thing is happening today. And we would, like
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I said, anything you can give, we would will take it.
And you can also make donations online at KFI A
M six forty dot com slash donate whatever you can
donate five bucks, ten bucks. It all adds up and
it all goes to the victims of these horrific wildfires.
We're gonna be back. We've got one more segment with
you wrap things up. We're gonna talk with Clint again
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with the he's the director of I'm going to get
this title right. He's the director of Disaster Services, Disaster
Relief Services. Dave Weese is correcting me. Don't correct me
on the air, Dave, I had to say something very
Neil like, just once today, just once. We'll be right back.
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This is Amy King broadcasting live at dream Center LA.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
You've been listening to the Fork Report, you can always
hear us live on KFI AM six forty two to
five pm on Saturday, and anytime on demand on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
I'm Amy King in for Neil Savagers today on the
Fork Report. We're live at dream Center LA, raising money,
taking donations for Palisades and e and fire victims. Coming
up next on KFI, We've got Tiffany Hobbs coming up
at five o'clock. Then Michael Monks, our buddy. Michael's going
to be on at seven after that. Also wanted to
point you toward our Instagram at Amy k King or
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at KFI AM six forty If you want to take
a look at what it looks like down here at
Dream Center, LA, if you're not going to make it
down today. It's pretty amazing to see this operation. We've
got Clint Carlton, the director of Disaster Services, with us
again one more time.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
Clint.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
I want to talk about this because I've been saying
throughout the day that this line of people coming in
to get assistance, to receive the donated goods, all the
things that you the KFI listener have been donating for
the last week and a half. These people are being
helped directly by that. So I want to talk about
because it's a pretty amazing operation you guys got to
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have going on here, a pretty cool assembly line, if
you will.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
It's just one big carousela compassion.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
That's what carousel of compass.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
The donations come in, they go out. You know, look
at Wendy's over there. Wendy's has been here the whole
day from nine am. They'll be here till seven pm.
Over one thousand cheeseburgers, a thousand fries, a thousand frosties.
I just I can't believe it.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
I will tell you my Wendy story, which love Wendy's.
By the way, when we were talking to Brady earlier,
he is one of the people in Altadina who lost
his home, and we said, Brady, do you want some
Wendy's And he's like, oh, my gosh, that's so nice.
I'm like, dude, you just lost your home. And he
was so humbled by it. Are you finding that from
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the people who are receiving these donated items.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Yeah, they're just overwhelmed by the you know, LA showing
up has showed up. I mean, LA gets such a
bad rap around the United States, around the world, but
this shoe truly showed what LA is. And it's standing
in the gap for your friends, your family, the people
that you don't even know. Oh, you know, people stood
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in the gap this week and I and you and
you clearly see that all around this whole day and
and how it's been since Wednesday, and not just around
the Dream Center, but around the whole Los Angeles area
and the different nonprofits. The Governor's office showed up today
and they couldn't believe. You know, we we literally we
ride on the cars on the windows, uh with with
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you know, obviously washable marker.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Right. Okay, Wait, so let's back that up. As people
pull in, yep, they are met by a volunteer and
they say, pop your trunk.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
Pop your trunk, and then what happened? Do you need
a case of water? What do you need down here?
And then they pull up and then our team meets
them right here and they begin to write on their
window Okay, do you need diapers? Okay, what size? And
so they'll write everything on their on their front windows.
So then our team and the volunteers up front can
actually read that on their window. And so it keeps
it pretty easy, keeps the keeps the line moving uh quickly.
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And we learned that during COVID as well, is they
don't have to get out of their car. They sit
right there. Just pop your trunk. We'll throw everything in there.
We throw it in with care and compassion, and we
get them through the line. And we're averaging about over
a thousand cards a day.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Now. That's amazing. And are you taking people's information or
it's just a they just get it and they.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Don't They get it and go and go. They get
it and go, and that's we try to make it
really easy. And that's with volunteers as well. We have
you sign a form a waiver when you volunteer here,
and that's it. You come in, you sign a waiver,
you volunteer, you come in and receive the product. It's
it's the greatest streamline process that I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
And you just mentioned volunteers. When you and I talked
earlier this week on Tuesday or Wednesday, you said that
you'd had like twenty five hundred volunteers. That number has
gone quite a bit higher.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
We've nearly had about five thousand volunteers come through. It's
it's amazing, it's it's mind blowing, and you know, it
truly shows, as we just said, it truly shows what
LA is. You know, their their volunteerism, and it's I
think it's a launching pad. I think it takes us
forward a little bit more in the Los Angeles and
it kind of help people out there.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yeah. Yeah, and do you still need volunt tiers for
next week?
Speaker 6 (27:01):
Yeah? Next week Monday through Saturday, we'll be here from
twelve pm to seven pm. So twelve pm, well, you know,
it's the three hours early. We're usually up at nine.
But it allows us to kind of get some semis in,
some send some product out and kind of do some
stuff on campus before we have a big flood of people.
So so twelve pm to seven pm Monday through Saturday
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next week.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Okay, So, and we're here tonight until seven o'clock. If
you'd like to drop off your donations. If you're looking
to receive donations, the line's pretty much snaked around through
several neighborhoods way through Alvarado, So so wait on that.
If you haven't come down to get your donation, get
your donated items. But if you have to drop off,
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there's plenty of room, plenty of room, So we would
love for you to come and do that. Kind a
couple more hours to do that, and then they're gonna
shut down tomorrow because everybody needs to sleep a little bit,
you guys, And.
Speaker 6 (27:53):
Yeah, realign, make sure that we have all the proper
things off of the line, and then we'll be back
on Monday morning. Monday, Yeah, in a day of service.
It's Martin Luther King Day. Most parades are shut down,
so let's choose Monday as a day of service. Let's
all get out, serve the community. Make it a data
service here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
I love that Clint Carlton, Director of Disaster Services, thank
you so much for everything you're doing for the community.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
It's thank you for everything you have done. We appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
It's amazing. Okay, we are out of here. We're going
to hand it over to Tiffany Hobbes, but want to
say thank you if you've made a donation, and thank
you in advance if you're going to make a donation.
We're here until seven twenty three oh one Bellevue, Los Angeles.
We're right in Echo Park. It's the Dream Center LA.
You can also make a donation online on our website
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KFI AM six forty dot com slash donate. You want
to feel good about humanity, come down to Dream Center LA.
Maybe volunteer a little bit next week. Wouldn't that be great.
It's so great to see Los Angeles coming together. The
need is great and we appreciate y'all stepping up. Thanks
for tuning into the four Report this afternoon. I'm Amy
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King in for Neil Savedra live from Dream Center LA.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
You're listening to The Fork Report with Neil Savedra on
demand from KFI A M six forty
Hey, it's Neil Savedra. You're listening to kfi EM six
forty the four Report on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hey, I'm Amy king in for Neil Savedra. Feeling a
little under the weather, so I'm sitting in for him today.
And normally he would be sitting here at dream Center LA,
but I get to do it instead. And I got
to tell you this is a this is a very
special place. And uh, we we've talked about how we
get a little jaded living in Los Angeles and so
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fast paced and you don't always know your neighbors and
not everybody so friendly. But the outpouring of love and
support that we've seen since these fires broke out, it's
just like wow, I just I'm I'm a little gobsmacked,
you know, like, like, how do you even explain it?
How many people have opened up their pocketbooks and opened
up their homes and their cupboards and they're you know,
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in their spare rooms and said, hey, or I don't
need this. We've got people who've lost everything and they
need it more than I do. We want to welcome
Dreams Center LA's executive director for Leadership Development, Es Stella
read thanks for stopping by this afternoon, Stella. So, Stella,
I want to ask you, well, first of all, I
want to talk about the line, because we've been talking
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about this all day, that there are two different lines
here at Dream Center LA. There's a line where you
can come and drop stuff off, and we just had
a U haul van, yeah, come by. They loaded that
thing up and there was there was no space in there.
It was loaded up and they came and dropped all
of that off for the people who are affected by
these fires. The second line is the line of people
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who are taking donations or you know, like taking the
things that have been donated. They're picking up. And when
I was here a couple of days ago, the line
was out the parking lot, down the street, around the block,
and down another block.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
It's bigger now, yeah, we are probably, I mean we
are multiple blocks at this point. I think it's Saturday.
Also think those that are impacted by the fires have
been thinking through losing their homes as well as having
to keep their jobs, and so they're working, and so
I think today was a day that we're seeing many
people come through that we're having conversations with that have
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had the time to say this is.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
What I need.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
The first few days was a lot of shock and
getting their families to safety.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
That's what I was going to ask. I mean, I
think that people are probably just now. I mean, yep,
maybe it's not worn out, but it's starting to work
there are it is?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I think I think they're entering the stage of a
little bit of the shock is wearing awesome, and now
it's what do I need? What do I need now
to begin the process of rebuilding my life in the
middle of being displaced, Many or finding where they're going
to land, whether it's family members. A lot of the
people through this line are finding friends and family.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
People are opening up homes.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Many people are honestly sacrificing their own homes and rooms
to provide places for people that they find and meet,
and also a lot of family and friends to live
with them. So what we're doing here is just honestly
trying our best right now to respond immediately to those needs.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Whether right.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
We had a family come through just a few minutes
ago and it was betting it was all the shampoo's
conditioners faced. I mean, they lost everything. So you're literally
looking through every cupboard. If you were to go to
your bathroom and think of what your normal routine is.
They need everything. You look in your closet, they need everything.
There isn't one thing that most people don't need right now.
And then if you're a mom, or you're a dad,
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or you're a caretaker maybe for one of your parents,
like you're thinking through not just yourself, but so many things.
And many have not just lost their homes, they've lost
their jobs, and so they're trying to think through all
of that together. So I don't even think we've scratched
the surface of the reality of the devastation of both
of the palisades and the eating fire at this.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Point, the implications of all of this. So you said,
how deep it goes? Because like you said, you know,
maybe it's someone who cleans houses for a living, Yes,
and all those houses are gone, Carl Landscape or a
garlt escape gardeners, the people that work and around the neighbor's.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Correct, It's really impacting a lot of different types of
infrastructures for these communities. In these neighborhoods and restaurants, salons
you have. These are people's livelihoods. And I've so it's
it is just devastating, and it's blocks upon blocks upon blocks.
It's not like we're talking one street. This is full communities.
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And so my even me, my own kids, we live
in a neighboring community of Altadena. And our soccer teams,
we're families on our soccer teams are Our school district
is two hundred and fifty families alone. That's just one
school district of families, and then twenty five teachers that
have lost everything. And that is one small little area
connected to Alta Dina, and it is just compounding and compounding.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
The need is huge.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So if you're wondering as you're giving, and you're constantly listening,
listening on Arab what.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Am I giving to this is a long road.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
The immediate response right now of the essentials of providing water,
food supplies, for hygiene supplies, for your betting, just those
simple things socks, underwear, all that makes such a difference.
This is the first stage of relief, and this part
is huge, But the second stage is actually now listening
to the stories and seeing how we are able to
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come alongside these families piece by piece, and neighborhood by
neighborhood and school schools have been burned down.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
And so we hear you're opening up school inside. We
are in our process right now.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
There's a school, there's a school that's outside in Altadena
that burned down that we are in the processes that
we walked. I sat with them yesterday and we sat
for a few hours and we walked all over and said,
with this work, with this work, what if we did
this area over here in the Dream Center is just
doing everything we can to accommodate and rearrange spaces. We're
beautifully central, okay, right here in downtown to respond the
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way we do because we have an infrastructure to respond
that way, and we're just doing whatever we can. So
if it's saying, hey, put up some spaces here so
these kids can come together and see some normality, then
we want to do that. And so yeah, we're in
the process of doing that, trying to get them chromebooks
to get going, getting classroom space for them to come
and just get to come together and be able to
see friends and some familiar faces. And honestly, so these
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teachers as well, this is their livelihoods well, and like you.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Said, the teachers are affected.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
There are teachers.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
There are teachers there's teachers lost their homes and now
they're trying to figure out, well, I have a job.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I mean, there's just so so many.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Layers to this that I think now that the shock
of what you've seen of the fires and the smoke
in the air, we're starting to see a lot of
that slowed down and we here the Dream Center. You
saw the fires from so many different directions. Now I
feel like that that shock, we're not in probably.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
That specific type of trauma mode anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I think it's settling in honestly now with the stories
of how big this is. And it's not everybody's been
saying this, but it isn't a sprint. It is a marathon,
and it's multiple marathons at this point. And I think
the Dream Center we're just trying to us and the
team and everyone in our entire executive team. We're just
bracing ourself and pacing ourselves, and we just keep saying,
(06:57):
let's listen well right now so that we respond well.
And that's what we're doing, and we're just we're getting
lists and lists of everybody we need and really looking
through what is the best way as we every day
wake up, how do we respond to this situation and
this disaster, and how is how can we make the
biggest impact?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
And this is what Dream Center does. They're going to
hold their hands and they're going to help them as
they start rebuilding and recovering from these wildfires. It's not
going to be today, it's not going to be done
next week or even next month. It's going to be.
Like you said, you're in it for the long haul.
So the immediate thing you can do now is make
a donation. If you can do that, come down here please,
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twenty three to oh one Bellevue in Los Angeles. We're
right in Echo Park. Just put it in ways and
it'll take you right down here. We've got we've got
room in line and we have big cars, little cars
like I mentioned that you all pulled up. We've got
pickup trucks loaded to the gill. I have a friend
of mine who lives in Posta Robles, and she said
one of her neighbors just brought a truckload massed up
to drove down from Haserobols and people are driving in
(08:02):
from Las Vegas. I heard somebody else drove sixteen hours
to bring a truckload of supplies. It's just amazing, but
they need more, and like you said, the need isn't
going to be over tomorrow or the next day. So
we're here until seven tonight at LA dream Center at
Dream Center LA twenty three oh one Bellevue. We would
love to have you coming down make a donation. You
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can also make donations online add on our website KFI
AM six forty dot com slash donate. We're going to
be right back. We are live at the Dream Center LA.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
You're listening to the Fork Report with Nil Savedra on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It's Sammy King in for Neil Savader today. We are
broadcasting live at the Dream Center LA twenty three oh
one Bellvue in Echo Park. We're here until seven o'clock
or dream Center LA is here until seven o'clock. We're
here with you until five o'clock. And the line of
cars that I've been telling you about all afternoon has
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not stopped. And that's the line of people who have
been affected by these fires. And it's around the block,
and then it's around another block, and around another block
and around another block. These people in some instances lost everything.
Like we talked with Brady early who sat there and
(09:23):
tried to fight the fire himself on Tuesday night and
there he is walking by and he decided, I can't
do it. I got to get out and save my life.
He got the shirt on his back and that's it.
His wife and his daughter got out, but that's it,
and he drove away as his house burned down. That's
the stories that we're hearing. We're hearing from people who
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had ninety seconds to get out wearing sweatpants and a sweatshirt.
That's it. And as we were just talking with Stella,
the people they don't have basic needs and that's where
you come in. So we're taking your donations again today
until seven o'clock and then they're gonna do a little
regroup and take a little breath themselves next tomorrow and
(10:08):
then they'll be back on Monday noon to seven. The
need's not going away. So if you can't make it
down today, we would love to have you come down
any day next week again from noon to seven, and
that's at twenty three oh one Bellevue and Echo Park.
You can also make a donation at KFI AM six
forty dot com slash donate. Also, if you haven't seen
(10:32):
what this all looks like. You can do that. We've
got posts up on Instagram. You can check out my
Instagram at Amy Kking or at Kfi's at KFI Am
six forty and you can see what they're doing. And
I will tell you that I came down to do
an out and about segment for a wake up call
earlier this week and there's more stuff here now than
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there was before. And that's what's so beautiful is that
more people continue to donate because, like we were just
talking with Stella about the need's not going to go
away in a week. It's going to be long term.
And also I wanted to tell you about a few
other places that are helping out, and that's some of
our restaurants around southern California that are chipping in. And
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so here's a couple more of the deals that they're
doing where they're donating. So you can go and have
a breakfast burrito at Bites and Bashes Cafe and Lomita
they have I hear delicious breakfast burritos. They're doing a
brunch time fundraiser tomorrow. They're donating one of the proceeds
(11:38):
to LA Fire Firefighters. Also eat free and if you want,
you can go down there and you can buy a buyer,
buy a firefighter a burrito for future delivery. There's the
collaborative fundraiser in Highland Park featuring Biria Pa La Courda. Okay,
I can't say a lot of this stuff that they're
they're starting at. Their offerings will include beardy a brisket,
(12:00):
oh Yum, Berkshire Carnites, cornbread, and Agua de Jamaica. I'm
sure I'm saying this wrong. I'm not very good with
my Spanish, but anyway, they're doing that starting at ten
am tomorrow and then I love this at Triple seven
Alameda Street, Los Angeles. Have you been to Schmorgesborg in
downtown where they have all the different food carts and
(12:21):
stuff so yummy. They're doing a fundraiser tomorrow on their
grand reopening day to address the needs of the community
special focus on supporting those impacted. Attendees will be able
to support large relief funds and vendors and their families
and friends who've been affected. All profits from the bar
sales are going to go to World Central Kitchen and
American Red Cross. That's from ten to four tomorrow. And
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then here's another one. The folks at Lasita in downtown
La are holding the Bar Tenders Club Wildfire Support Drive.
It's on Monday, January twentieth. Bring a food item. They
have a whole a bunch of items listed on their website,
like protein based snacks, peanut butter, nut butters crackers, peanut
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butter crackers, juice crackers, trail mixed fruit snacks, energy bars,
pop top tuna, pop top chicken juice boxes, those kinds
of things. If you bring in a food item, you'll
get a free drink in return. Ooh, what a deal.
And I love a good baked sale. Baked sale with
Nice Coffee in Highland Park. Thirty La bakers are going
to join Nice Coffee at Carla's fresh Market in Highland Park.
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That's at two forty eight North Avenue fifty and that
is on January twenty fifth, So see this not only
today tomorrow, it's going into next week. A baked sale
is going to raise money for World Central Kitchen. Bakers
selling treats will include Emily Lori, Mrissa Feldman and if
that's from ten to one, and that's at Carla's fresh
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Market in Highland Park. So cool that all these restaurants
are doing these things to help and then donating their
proceeds because again, these restaurants and these bakeries in all
these places, they don't all have tons and tons and
tons of extra money, so they're donating part of what
they make to help the people who've been affected by
the wildfires. It's a beautiful thing in a heartbreaking situation.
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We're going to come back. We are going to be
talking with Marsha Green from Wildfork. Wait till you hear
what Wildfork has done. And if you haven't heard of Wildfire, Wildfork,
they are a friend of the Fork Report. Neil Savadra's
talked to them several times. So we're going to be
talking to Marcia find out what they're doing to help
the fire victims. And it's pretty amazing. It's pretty amazing.
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In fact, everything all of you guys are doing is
pretty amazing. So thank you. If you can stop by,
we would love to see you. We're here until five,
they're taking donations until seven. We are on location at
Dream Center, LA.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
You're listening to The Fork Report with Nil Savedra on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I'm Amy King, sitting in for Neil today and today
I am sitting at Dream Center LA and watching one
of the most beautiful things ever, and that's Angelino's coming
together to help other Angelinos. We just had another car
just pulled in, and the cars, the stream of cars
pulling in with their trucks and their SUVs loaded to
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the rafters to drop off donations is astounding. And the
palettes and palettes of food and water and sports drinks
and other supplies and diapers and paper towels and all
that kind of stuff is just amazing. And then also
on the other amazing side is this again, this non
stop stream of cars of people who are accepting the
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donated items and they're they're receiving the donated items because
they've lost everything and they need your help, and you
guys are it's uh, it's really cool to see. It's
very hard to see because you know there's but it's
very cool to see because you know, LA is coming
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together and we love that. Here's somebody else who's helping out.
And it's a friend of Fork Report. It's a Marsha
Green with Wild Fork. Good morning or good morning, it's
almost evening, Good afternoon, Marcia.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Good afternoon, Amy. Thanks, Oh thanks to me. I hope
you're still better. Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yes, I can hear you. I can hear you. So Marcia,
before we talk about what all you're doing in response
to the wildfires, I want to kind of let people
know what Wildfork is if they're not familiar with it.
What is Wildfork?
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Wild Fork is a pretty unique meat and seafood market.
What we do is we blast freeze our products with
sills and the vitamins and minerals, keeping your products pressure
and longer and more flavorful. We have anything from exotic
meat and seafood from around the world. We have everyday item,
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milk prep and even kosher thirtified. So it's a very
revolutionary type of grocery store.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
So you are probably uniquely suited to help with this
wildfire relief. So we hear you've donated a full truckload
twenty four palettes of food to the Dream Center Foundation.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
We did, you know, we realized when this all happened,
and having stores between La down into Socaw and Orange
County and seed Is, you know, all of us were
impacted by this terrible tragedy, so we knew we had.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
To step up.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
So we did. And what we did is we've donated
enough food that we're going to be able to not
only help the people today but in the future as
we want to keep on feeding people as they build
and rebuild Marshall.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
That's beautiful thing.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Yeah, I had comed up with the Dream Center, and
then a Bound Food stepped in with us and gave
us portable freezers to help us to stay in the
momentum of donating, and the whole organization stepped in. It's
a huge blessing for everybody affected. So we're here for
the long run. We're here to help.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I bet there's a lot of people who are very
thankful to hear that. And you, guys, this is no
small thing donating. It's valued at like fifty thousand dollars
the donation, So this is big. And like we've talked about,
I mean, it's not like you have an extra fifty
thousand laying around, but when your community needs you, you
guys stepped up and there's that. It's just that's big time.
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So hats off to you, Marcia. Tell us again, also,
you're doing something else that is super cool. It's called
a give back. Tell us what a give back is.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Yeah, thank you for bringing that up. So we're doing
a fundraiser in all of our stores called give Back.
Anybody who wants support moving forward for the rest of
this year. Were any church, school, charity, any foundation that
needs help building anything in the community. You do, show
up one of our eleven locations in southern California, ask
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for a manager and tell them you want to book
a giftback with that. What we're going to do is
for that day, as portions of sales from eight am
to mee pm goes back to that charity, and we
give back fifteen percent of our sales. So it's an
ongoing thing.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
That is so cool is that you said it's ongoing.
Is that something that you've been doing for a while or.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
As we started it? We started at the end of
last year, but when this happened, we decided to really
ramp it up and really do something more with us.
So we really castlehold this year into making it a
bigger program. But fifteen percent from the store sales from
eight am to nine for that specific charity, that portion
goes back to them. It's a huge support that keeps
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giving back.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
That is amazing give backs and that's exactly what you know,
what we've seen so many people doing. They're giving back
to their community and giving back to help others who
need them now. Like we were talking to a gentleman
who's literally lost his house. He watched is his house
burned down and he said, I just I hope that
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I can help other people one day once I'm back
on my feet. I mean, it's just it's amazing to
see the spirit of these people who have been devastated
and lost everything. Marsha Green, where can we find more
information about not only the givebacks when you go into
the stores, but about Wildfork And maybe maybe you want
to order a bunch of food from Wildfork.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Yeah, go to Wildforkfoods dot com. You can find our
twelve locations between laoc And and Sanitas. Everything is on
our website. Just look for a store location and trust me,
the managers all of us at Wildfork and SOCAW we
all support the community. So oh, you going today's give
back and we got you. We'll take care of.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
You, okay. Marsha Green with Wildfork, thank you so much
for your time. We love what you're doing. Thanks for
helping to give back, and thanks for that truckload us
applies to a Dream Center LA.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
Thank you for supporting the community. We're very happy and
proud that we're able to do this, and thank you
for having me.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
All right, thanks Marsha. See amazing people coming together to
help their neighbors and their friends and people who don't
even live in their community, like we had. I mentioned
a friend of mine had one of her neighbors drove
a truck down from Pasta Robles with a truckload of
donations for the people who need it. We are here
taking those donations. Would love for you to stop by.
(21:30):
We've got a couple more hours today. We're here until
seven o'clock taking donations at twenty three oh one Bellevue
in Echo Park that's in Los Angeles, and you can
just pull on up and they'll shuttle you through the
line and you can drop everything off and see what
an amazing thing is happening today. And we would, like
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I said, anything you can give, we would will take it.
And you can also make donations online at KFI A
M six forty dot com slash donate whatever you can
donate five bucks, ten bucks. It all adds up and
it all goes to the victims of these horrific wildfires.
We're gonna be back. We've got one more segment with
you wrap things up. We're gonna talk with Clint again
(22:13):
with the he's the director of I'm going to get
this title right. He's the director of Disaster Services, Disaster
Relief Services. Dave Weese is correcting me. Don't correct me
on the air, Dave, I had to say something very
Neil like, just once today, just once. We'll be right back.
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This is Amy King broadcasting live at dream Center LA.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
You've been listening to the Fork Report, you can always
hear us live on KFI AM six forty two to
five pm on Saturday, and anytime on demand on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
I'm Amy King in for Neil Savagers today on the
Fork Report. We're live at dream Center LA, raising money,
taking donations for Palisades and e and fire victims. Coming
up next on KFI, We've got Tiffany Hobbs coming up
at five o'clock. Then Michael Monks, our buddy. Michael's going
to be on at seven after that. Also wanted to
point you toward our Instagram at Amy k King or
(23:15):
at KFI AM six forty If you want to take
a look at what it looks like down here at
Dream Center, LA, if you're not going to make it
down today. It's pretty amazing to see this operation. We've
got Clint Carlton, the director of Disaster Services, with us
again one more time.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
Clint.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
I want to talk about this because I've been saying
throughout the day that this line of people coming in
to get assistance, to receive the donated goods, all the
things that you the KFI listener have been donating for
the last week and a half. These people are being
helped directly by that. So I want to talk about
because it's a pretty amazing operation you guys got to
(23:50):
have going on here, a pretty cool assembly line, if
you will.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
It's just one big carousela compassion.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
That's what carousel of compass.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
The donations come in, they go out. You know, look
at Wendy's over there. Wendy's has been here the whole
day from nine am. They'll be here till seven pm.
Over one thousand cheeseburgers, a thousand fries, a thousand frosties.
I just I can't believe it.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
I will tell you my Wendy story, which love Wendy's.
By the way, when we were talking to Brady earlier,
he is one of the people in Altadina who lost
his home, and we said, Brady, do you want some
Wendy's And he's like, oh, my gosh, that's so nice.
I'm like, dude, you just lost your home. And he
was so humbled by it. Are you finding that from
(24:39):
the people who are receiving these donated items.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Yeah, they're just overwhelmed by the you know, LA showing
up has showed up. I mean, LA gets such a
bad rap around the United States, around the world, but
this shoe truly showed what LA is. And it's standing
in the gap for your friends, your family, the people
that you don't even know. Oh, you know, people stood
(25:02):
in the gap this week and I and you and
you clearly see that all around this whole day and
and how it's been since Wednesday, and not just around
the Dream Center, but around the whole Los Angeles area
and the different nonprofits. The Governor's office showed up today
and they couldn't believe. You know, we we literally we
ride on the cars on the windows, uh with with
(25:22):
you know, obviously washable marker.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Right. Okay, Wait, so let's back that up. As people
pull in, yep, they are met by a volunteer and
they say, pop your trunk.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
Pop your trunk, and then what happened? Do you need
a case of water? What do you need down here?
And then they pull up and then our team meets
them right here and they begin to write on their
window Okay, do you need diapers? Okay, what size? And
so they'll write everything on their on their front windows.
So then our team and the volunteers up front can
actually read that on their window. And so it keeps
it pretty easy, keeps the keeps the line moving uh quickly.
(25:53):
And we learned that during COVID as well, is they
don't have to get out of their car. They sit
right there. Just pop your trunk. We'll throw everything in there.
We throw it in with care and compassion, and we
get them through the line. And we're averaging about over
a thousand cards a day.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Now. That's amazing. And are you taking people's information or
it's just a they just get it and they.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Don't They get it and go and go. They get
it and go, and that's we try to make it
really easy. And that's with volunteers as well. We have
you sign a form a waiver when you volunteer here,
and that's it. You come in, you sign a waiver,
you volunteer, you come in and receive the product. It's
it's the greatest streamline process that I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
And you just mentioned volunteers. When you and I talked
earlier this week on Tuesday or Wednesday, you said that
you'd had like twenty five hundred volunteers. That number has
gone quite a bit higher.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
We've nearly had about five thousand volunteers come through. It's
it's amazing, it's it's mind blowing, and you know, it
truly shows, as we just said, it truly shows what
LA is. You know, their their volunteerism, and it's I
think it's a launching pad. I think it takes us
forward a little bit more in the Los Angeles and
it kind of help people out there.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yeah. Yeah, and do you still need volunt tiers for
next week?
Speaker 6 (27:01):
Yeah? Next week Monday through Saturday, we'll be here from
twelve pm to seven pm. So twelve pm, well, you know,
it's the three hours early. We're usually up at nine.
But it allows us to kind of get some semis in,
some send some product out and kind of do some
stuff on campus before we have a big flood of people.
So so twelve pm to seven pm Monday through Saturday
(27:21):
next week.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Okay, So, and we're here tonight until seven o'clock. If
you'd like to drop off your donations. If you're looking
to receive donations, the line's pretty much snaked around through
several neighborhoods way through Alvarado, So so wait on that.
If you haven't come down to get your donation, get
your donated items. But if you have to drop off,
(27:42):
there's plenty of room, plenty of room, So we would
love for you to come and do that. Kind a
couple more hours to do that, and then they're gonna
shut down tomorrow because everybody needs to sleep a little bit,
you guys, And.
Speaker 6 (27:53):
Yeah, realign, make sure that we have all the proper
things off of the line, and then we'll be back
on Monday morning. Monday, Yeah, in a day of service.
It's Martin Luther King Day. Most parades are shut down,
so let's choose Monday as a day of service. Let's
all get out, serve the community. Make it a data
service here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
I love that Clint Carlton, Director of Disaster Services, thank
you so much for everything you're doing for the community.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
It's thank you for everything you have done. We appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
It's amazing. Okay, we are out of here. We're going
to hand it over to Tiffany Hobbes, but want to
say thank you if you've made a donation, and thank
you in advance if you're going to make a donation.
We're here until seven twenty three oh one Bellevue, Los Angeles.
We're right in Echo Park. It's the Dream Center LA.
You can also make a donation online on our website
(28:41):
KFI AM six forty dot com slash donate. You want
to feel good about humanity, come down to Dream Center LA.
Maybe volunteer a little bit next week. Wouldn't that be great.
It's so great to see Los Angeles coming together. The
need is great and we appreciate y'all stepping up. Thanks
for tuning into the four Report this afternoon. I'm Amy
(29:02):
King in for Neil Savedra live from Dream Center LA.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
You're listening to The Fork Report with Neil Savedra on
demand from KFI A M six forty
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