Over the past few weeks, members of the Carpinteria community collected monetary and physical donations for those impacted by the Los Angeles wildfires, including the Carpinteria Valley Baptist Church, Pacific Health Foods, Carpinteria Scouts Troop 50 and beyond.
Last week, the Boy Scouts raised enough money to make 500 emergency toiletry kits for those impacted by the fires; these kits were dropped off at the Carpinteria-Summerland Fire Protection District on Saturday, before the Santa Barbara Public Market’s Silas and Gina Fallstich drove them to Los Angeles in a U-Haul truck.
Members of the Carpinteria Valley Baptist Church also prepared over 200 boxes of donations, which were loaded and on their way to Pasadena and Altadena on Saturday. Pastor Charles Newton thanked the community for its support…