sunlit_music | What you can do: Help a woman who lost everything in a fire (Reply)

www/@booksandcorsets lost everything in a fire. Her roommate probably lost everything too. Nobody was injured or hurt, but people need help to get back on their feet. She'll only have a place to stay for a week. After that, she's on her own. Please repost this or send some dollars her way, so she won't be left out on the streets. Thank you.

Read more here - the text in italics below is from rosefox's dreamwidth journal: http://rosefox.dreamwidth.org/1597560.html

Today while she was at work, she got a call from her landlord saying that her house was on fire. By the time she got home, there was nothing left. Literally, nothing. Her beloved pet birds, her family heirlooms, her books and clothes and furniture and brand new iPad, all gone. Her roommate likewise lost everything. The buildings on either side of hers were gutted too. (News coverage here with video of the fire and the burned-out building. Quite horrifying. No reports of human deaths or injuries, which is kind of amazing given the scope of it.)

Right now the Red Cross is putting her up in a hotel. She thinks that will last about a week. After that, she's going to couch-surf until she figures out whether she wants to wait three months for her old place to be renovated or try to find a new home. Until she's settled, she doesn't need donations of stuff. What she needs is money so she can keep herself afloat for the next couple of months and eventually replace some of the things that were destroyed. She does have a job and income, but she'll need to take time off work to deal with all of this. She had tried to get renter's insurance and got stuck in the labyrinthine bureaucratic process, so she has pretty much no recourse except for those of us who care about her.

If you can send a few bucks her way, please do, and spread the word...My heartfelt thanks for anything you can give.

If you need a URL to share around that doesn't have LJ's "adult content" notice, use this one:

http://tinyurl.com/helpalyssa