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Camp Fire California Nov 8, 2018

Americares Responds to California Wildfires

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Americares is deploying a response team and preparing emergency shipments of medicine and relief supplies to help families displaced by the deadly wildfires raging through California. The health-focused relief and development organization is readying medicine, N95 respirator masks, hygiene kits, first aid supplies, vaccines and other critically needed items to send to partner clinics in close proximity to the fires. Americares has offered assistance to more than two dozen partner health facilities in Los Angeles and Ventura counties and surrounding areas and is continuing outreach efforts. An emergency response team left on Wednesday for Butte County in Northern California to assess the health needs at emergency shelters and health facilities treating survivors. “Thousands of California residents are in need of assistance, including many who don’t have homes to return to,” said Americares Director of Emergency Response Brian Scheel.

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Americares Delivers Aid to Earthquake-Stricken Indonesia, Fire-Stricken California

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Americare’s, the Stamford-based international charity that emphasizes quick relief efforts after natural disasters in the United States and worldwide, is providing relief in two areas recently hit by catastrophes of different types: an earthquake in Indonesia and the recent large fires in California. Here’s what the charity said about it’s efforts in two recent announcements:
In Indonesia
Aug. 7 — Americares is responding to the 6.9-magnitude earthquake that struck the Indonesian island of Lombok Sunday evening, toppling buildings, destroying roads and sending powerful aftershocks throughout the island. Indonesian officials are reporting more than 100 people have died, and more than 200 are injured. As many as 20,000 people are currently displaced and thousands more crowd outdoor areas as aftershocks continue throughout the region.