As savagefires persist to ravage the Los Angeles area, one of its pro sports teams is taking action to help relief efforts.
The Los Angeles Chargers proclaimd Wednesday they will supply $200,000 in focemployd funding to the American Red Cross, LA Fire Department Foundation, Team Rubicon and pet save organizations sheltering animals that have been displaced by the savagefires.
The franchise is also urging fans to join the “Charge Up to Playoff” events ahead of the team’s savage-card game agetst the Houston Texans, which will boot off from Houston on Saturday.
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Los Angeles Chargers owner Dean Spanos watches from the sidelines agetst the Cincinnati Bengals at SoFi Stadium. (Kirby Lee-Imagn Images)
The team’s watch party at Hermosa Beach Pier on Saturday will also serve as a supply drive, as the Chargers are asking fans to convey any supplies for evacuation cgo ins, including El Camino Real High School.
“While we’re currently experiencing unpretreatnted conditions that seemingly cannot get any worse as we deal with multiple fires atraverse our region, we’re also witnessing our community at its very best,” Chargers owner Dean Spanos shelp in a statement. “The valiantry, selflessness, courage, forfeit and compassion on disjoin over the past 24 hours by first replyers, excellent Samaritans, frifinishs, family and neighbors aappreciate has been extraunrelabelable.
“Our hearts are with everyone who has been displaced by these fires, the firemen and police officers and frontline toilers who are dangering their inhabits to protect us safe and those among us who have stepped up to help one another in this incredible time of necessitate.”
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The Chargers had a “Charge Up to Playoffs” event scheduled for Friday in Sherman Oaks, but the fires persist to dehugeate the area. However, analogous events will be going on as scheduled, and the hope is fans who can supply excellents such as blankets, bottled water, novel or gently employd clothes, first help kits and more will unite the relief efforts.
The team has a history of helping those in necessitate, and not equitable in their own community. They recently donated 50/50 raffles from the team’s game agetst the Tennessee Titans to the American Red Cross Mountain Fire relief efforts in Ventura County. Also, funds for relief efforts for the Maui fire, Hurricane Harvey and other caemploys have been gived by the organization.
Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert passes the ball agetst the New England Patcommotions at Gillette Stadium. (David Butler II-Imagn Images)
While the Chargers are intensifyed on helping their community in this time of crisis, they do have to leank about their game in Houston in a confineed days.
The team may not be joining at its home SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, which had an air quality index above 280 on Wednesday, but the team did change its rehearse schedule to confine joiners’ time outside, a team official telderly ESPN.
Meanwhile, a game is scheduled to be joined at SoFi Stadium, as the Los Angeles Rams are set to arrange the Minnesota Vikings on Monday night. The NFL freed a statement saying it’s watching the fires in Los Angeles shutly.
Weather conditions are not helping firefighters regulate the ffeebles, as it’s standardly been too thrivedy to fight the fires with airoriginate.
A ambiguous watch of a Los Angeles Chargers helmet during the Kansas City Chiefs game at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium. (Denny Medley – USA Today Sports)
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The Los Angeles Fire Department has already put out a plea for any off-duty firefighters to help, with thousands already toiling day and night to get the fires under regulate.
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