January 2025

Response of Pasadena Village

By Richard Myers
Posted: 01/18/2025

In the wake of the Eaton Canyon fire, Pasadena Village staff created a phone tree to contact every member of the Village to determine how they were impacted by the conflagration.  Members volunteered to work with staff, and all 230 members of our community were contacted within a week. 20 individuals have lost their homes; a total of 17 homes have been destroyed. We believe 91 of our Villagers were evacuated from their homes. Some have been able to return but we do not currently have a good count of who is back in their homes or who has been able to visit their home, and who has not.

The Village had already created a resource website AgingSGV.org and quickly added additional information directly pertinent to the fire relief, including links to helpful maps that show the evacuation and burn areas, and a map of structures impacted.

The Annenberg Foundation has awarded Pasadena Village a grant of $25,000 and from the California Community Foundation a grant of $100,000. Both were issued in recognition of our organization’s relief efforts. Our Grants Officer at the Annenberg Foundation said: "Your organization’s efforts to support older adults through check-ins, resource coordination, and mutual aid are truly commendable." 

As of January 29, 2025, more than $32,000 has been contributed to a Relief Fund to assist Villagers who have suffered direct losses. Access to the Relief Fund has been made available through a link on our website Pasadena Village Relief Fund  so that anyone coming to our website through the home page will have an opportunity to contribute. 

Village volunteers continue to distribute supplies and financial assistance to residents of our community as well as to their fellow Villagers.  As this effort has grown, Village leadership has established a management process that identifies what needs to be done and that designates responsibility for who is going to do it.

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