‘Los Angeles is Our 2nd House’

Maná has spoken out concerning the devastating ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles, asking their enthusiasts and associates to make donations. 

“Los Angeles is like hell. There are devastating fires which might be affecting the homes…it’s super how the hearth is raging,” frontman Fher Olvera mentioned in a video message posted on Thursday (Jan. 9). 

He persevered: “First, we urge the Latin inventive group to donate. Los Angeles has all the time handled all folks artists, and smartly for Maná, Los Angeles has been circle of relatives to us. Let’s donate and likewise calling all of the Mexican and Latin American group in america. We need to give lately, no matter we will. We need to discover a position, a basis, an establishment that may channel the sources that we ship. We, Maná, want that this passes once conceivable and that it impacts you as low as conceivable. That’s nature, we adore you very a lot from Mexico.” 

Within the caption at the submit — the place in addition they expressed that L.A. “has all the time been our 2d house” — the Mexican rock band shared an inventory of organizations that they’re going to be donating to and supporting: Los Angeles Fireplace Division Basis, International Central Kitchen, and the Pasadena Group Process Middle.  

The west-side Palisades Fireplace has transform essentially the most damaging in L.A. historical past, consistent with the Related Press. Fanned through robust, gusting winds, the hearth has ended in the evacuation of greater than 30,000 citizens, in step with CBS Information. At the east-side, Eaton Fireplace has lately burned 10,600 acres close to Pasadena, and over 50,000 citizens have evacuated their houses.

For well being indicators, evacuation updates and safe haven knowledge, take a look at L.A. County’s emergency site right here.