The Walt Disney Company is helping hundreds of employees impacted by the deadly and devastating wildfires that destroyed swaths of Pacific Palisades and Altadena with temporary housing, clothing and monetary relief.
At least 64 Disney employees lost their homes in the Palisades and Eaton fires and hundreds more remain evacuated from their homes, the New York Times reported.
About 100 displaced Disney employees have been staying in rooms at the Disneyland Hotel, Pixar Place Hotel and Disney’s Grand Californian, according to the Times.
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Disney will donate $15 million to fire relief efforts in the Los Angeles area following the devastating fires that destroyed large parts of Pacific Palisades and Altadena.
“We want to help rebuild,” Disney CEO Bob Iger told the Times.
Iger has pledged to have Walt Disney Imagineering help design new town centers in Altadena and Pacific Palisades and to rally Disney volunteers to set up temporary schools in the wildfire damaged communities.
“Rebuilding is not just about money,” Iger told the Times. “It’s about ingenuity and determination.”
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Disney’s employee relief fund is providing up to $4,000 for basic household necessities and incidental expenses to cast members impacted by the wildfires.
Disney is providing two months of free furnished housing to employees with fire damaged or destroyed houses who can’t immediately return home when evacuation orders are lifted.
The Disney movie studio wardrobe department is providing clothing and shoes to employees who lost everything in the fires.
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Generations of Imagineers who conceived, designed and built the attractions and lands at Disneyland, Disney California Adventure and Disney theme parks around the world lost their homes in the Eaton Fire that devastated Altadena.
“Most of the places where we all lived burnt to ashes,” former Imagineer Joe Rohde wrote on Instagram. “Altadena was our home and home base.”