Reply to BarbB: The amazing thing here is that many of the people helping/donating are pretty poor themselves. The woman who runs the largest fire relief place in town (at a church) works for minimum wage as a caregiver...but she has at times donated food for meals for dozens of people! This town is unusual in that a small portion of residents are wealthy retired folks who live in lovely homes, offset by all the minimum-wage tourism workers. There are very few middle-income jobs here. The town has 8,000 residents, but weekends and summer mean that there are over 50,000 people in town. As a result, every kid in our local school gets free breakfast and lunch; there are very few whose parents have a decent income. Dealing with Covid was a challenge...and then the fire burned nearly 300 homes, most of them very modest, north of town where property taxes are far, far lower. The areas that were burned were mostly heavily wooded with manufactured or very modest homes; it's like the fire skipped over the nicer homes (for the most part) and wiped out the people who had the least. Some are still living on Red Cross vouchers in a local motel; there's hope that FEMA trailers will come in soon to be set up in a planned subdivision that went bankrupt before homes were built. There are still displaced bears and cougars, but they're finally finding new homes away from the burned area. At times, there have been so many donations that the fire relief places have been overwhelmed. I'm continually amazed at how upbeat the atmosphere is among the people clearing their own lots: they've taken charge of their own destiny after having been dealt a very bad hand by fate. Nearly four months after the fire, many of them now have decided that they'll like their new home, whether manufactured or stick built, much better than what they had. They're over grieving all the things they lost and have risen to the challenge of starting over. A friend, who owned a mobile home park, was proud that she was providing decent housing for 31 families. Post fire, 29 of the mobile homes were rubble, and she lost her own home of over 50 years...but she's working to get permits to rebuild the mobile home park and has supported the two families whose homes weren't burned. At 79, she still hopes to be able to provide low-income housing; fortunately, she had excellent insurance on all the homes. A real trouper! She laughs because when she had to leave her home, she really thought it wouldn't burn. Her house was on a high heavily wooded hill; as she drove down the hill she remembered that she had set a bag of garbage out to take down to the trash can on the highway, so she turned around, retrieved the garbage, and placed it in the trash can so that the bears wouldn't get into it!