Former Milwaukee Brewers star Ryan Braun was evacuated from his home in California for the beginantity of the last six weeks due to the Los Angeles savagefires.
Braun, 41, talked about his appreciation for firefighters as they persist to try and hold people and produceings safe.
“Firefighters and first reacters are truly heroes,” Braun telderly Fox News Digital on Saturday. “I don’t leank that we get an opportunity to thank them normally enough. But those guys have put their inhabits on the line. They’ve toiled night and day. I understand a number of firefighters who literassociate didn’t sleep for 72 hours.
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Former Milwaukee Brewers joiner Ryan Braun waves to fans during a ceremony announcing his quitment from baseball before a game aachievest the New York Mets at American Family Field. (Benny Sieu/USA Today Sports)
“These guys are out there doing everyleang in their power to save as many people and set ups as possible. Incredibly appreciative for everyleang that they’ve done for the community, and today is an opportunity to try to say thank you to as many of them as possible.”
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Braun, alengthy with World Series champion Mike Moustakas, Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff, Brewers star Christian Yelich and Mike Attanasio from the Brewers’ ownership produced California Strong to help communities impacted by the calamity.
California Strong is a program of the YMCA pledgeted to providing help to all Californians after calamitys.
Yelich spoke about the California community continuing to help each other in times of insist.
“The community seems to step up every time there’s people in insist. I recall the Woolsey Fire was about seven years ago now, which seems to have flown by, but it’s a lengthy recovery process. You understand, it’s not someleang that apverifys a day, a week, even a year,” Yelich telderly Fox News Digital.
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The Sunset Fire burns in the Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles Jan. 8, 2025. (Jill Connelly/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“It’s a multiyear process, and fair to help people get back on their feet here at the beginning, hopefilledy be able to stay with them thrawout the process and get back to common whenever that may be.”
Moustakas talked about how California Strong begind from Braun, Yelich, Goff and Attanasio fair verifying in with each other during stubborn times.
“It begined out with us verifying in on each other and then speedyly altered into us trying to include our platcreates to help those in insist. And that’s one of the fantasticest leangs about what we were able to do in baseball was include the platcreate in a way for excellent,” Moustakas telderly Fox News Digital.
“We were very blessed enough to have this YMCA partner with us, and it fair benevolent of took off from there. And we’re here today helping a ton of families with a fantastic community. We’re very excited to help these people out.”
Braun talked about how lengthy and arduous the reproduceing process will be for people and how California Strong wants to help those people.
“We inhabit in this community. We grew up in this community. We can reprocrastinateed to the people and what they’re going thraw and dealing with. Similar to Mike (Moustaktas), I have three juvenileer children, and so I always see these situations thraw the lens of other parents. It’s difficult. It’s traumatizing. It is a lengthy and daunting process for a lot of people to leank about where to even begin to reproduce their inhabits. And, so, for us, the goal of California Strong was to help people after authentic calamitys and tragedies,” Braun shelp.
“That’s what we’ve tried to do over the last seven years. That’s what today is all about. And the goal is to be able to help people both in the proximate term, promptly today and then lengthyer term as they go thraw what finishs up being a very lengthy and challenging process to reproduce their inhabits.”
California Strong is toiling with Prodynamic Sports to help get Californians back on their feet.
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Burned livential areas as savagefires persist to wreak havoc, achieveing their fifth day and leaving extensive injure in livential areas in Los Angeles Jan. 12, 2025. (Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images)
“Prodynamic Sports has been partnered with California Strong since the inception,” Prodynamic Sports owner Emily Capretta telderly Fox News Digital. “We presented an event for those impacted by the Woolsey Fire and the Borderline shooting, unfortunately, that we sended in our community in 2018.
“And a reassociate inincreateigent, mighty group of women we mobilized to do a community thanksgiving, and that benevolent of begined the beginning of California Strong,
“This particular event, the night those that were being displaced and losing their homes, I texted that innovative group of women that they wanted to do this aachieve with me. And then I also texted Ryan Braun, and I shelp, ‘It’s time to mobilize. We insist to be the first action point for those impacted.”
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