A crowd of at least 100 people stood organizing piles of donated clothes, toiletries, diapers and cases of water at a pop-up aid center for fire vicitims at the Santa Anita Race Track parking lot 3 Friday evening as the Eaton Fire continued to burn in the foothills in the distance.
“We started at Brookside with a hot dog cart,” said Jimmy Medina, owner of Tacos Los Huicholes.
Over the past two days, Medina said he had served hundreds and hundreds of people hot dogs and breakfast burritos for free. Medina spoke as he flipped a tortilla for a breakfast burrito – all while we were being recorded on TikTok Live – a cellphone propped up to show the grill, his wife, Vanessa beside him, minding the camera angle…