{"id":430274,"date":"2026-08-12T01:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T01:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/430274\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T01:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T01:16:07","slug":"colombia-earthquake-los-angeles-restaurant-macondo-kitchen-collecting-donations-for-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/430274\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia earthquake: Los Angeles restaurant Macondo Kitchen collecting donations for victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">VAN NUYS, LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; A Van Nuys restaurant is collecting donations for <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/colombia-searches-missing-powerful-earthquake-kills-more-100\/19661723\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">earthquake victims in Colombia<\/a> as the death toll climbed to 224 and more than 2,500 people were reported injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Rescuers continued searching through rubble Tuesday after the magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Colombia on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">At Macondo Kitchen in Van Nuys, the focus has turned to helping family members and communities affected by the disaster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Stephanie Blanco, whose family lives across the areas most impacted by the quake, said the devastation has been difficult to watch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been trying not to cry because it&#8217;s very sad,&#8221; Blanco said. &#8220;It affects everybody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The destruction has left thousands of buildings damaged or destroyed, with injured residents filling streets in affected areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Macondo Kitchen is now accepting donations for earthquake victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;We&#8217;re trying to get any supplies,&#8221; Blanco said. &#8220;Diapers, dry milk, medical supplies, clothes, whatever you can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Andrew Blencheteau of Macondo Kitchen said the restaurant welcomes contributions of all kinds as relief efforts continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;We&#8217;ll receive anything you want to give to help the people in Colombia during this tough time,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VAN NUYS, LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; A Van Nuys restaurant is collecting donations for earthquake victims in Colombia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[171092,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-430274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-171092","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}