CHICAGO – As the wildfires continue to burn and the devastation unfolds in Southern California, people everywhere are asking what they can do to help, including here in Chicagoland.
“What’s been described to me is the minute they walked out of their house, they could feel the heat and they could see the fire and smoke,” former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said.
Lightfoot told WGN News her 96-year-old uncle and aunt William and Minnie Washington had little to no time to evacuate their home in Altadena.
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“Luckily physically they are fine. That’s just the hand of God. That’s the only thing you can say about that, but they have literally lost everything. The house I’ve been going to since I was a little girl, the only thing that’s left is the cement steps and a metal railing,” Lightfoot said…