IATSE is offering assistance to its members displaced due to the wildfires.
In a release, IATSE, the union that represents the workers behind-the-scenes said, “If you or a fellow member has been displaced due to the wildfires, please contact the Local office as soon as possible to let us know your/their current circumstances, as well as provide any temporary address and contact information you may have, so that we may mobilize resources appropriately.”
It calls on members to donate contributions for needed items and to volunteer manpower where possible. The organization will be sending out correspondence on how members can donate to those in need and where drop-off points will be.
IATSE Local 892 will be open on Saturday morning and needs volunteers. A sign up sheet has been shared.
The Animation Guild, which represents animation artists, writers, technicians and production workers has also offered a list of resources. The guild advised that Local 80, representing motion picture grips, crafts service, marine, first aid employees and warehouse workers has opened its Burbank stage as a relief shelter.
Fires continue to rage across the Los Angeles area, destroying hundreds of buildings and causing mass evacuations. Over 15,000 acres have burned in the Pacific Palisades and Malibu since a fire started Tuesday morning, while in Altadena, the Eaton Fire has burned through more than 10,000 acres. A third blaze, the Hurst Fire, has burned more than 700 acres at top of the San Fernando Valley.
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