{"id":5218,"date":"2025-10-15T03:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T03:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/5218\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T03:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T03:02:06","slug":"county-distributed-31-million-in-grants-to-households-impacted-by-la-fires-pasadena-star-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/5218\/","title":{"rendered":"County distributed $31 million in grants to households impacted by LA fires \u2013 Pasadena Star News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles County Office of Consumer and Business Affairs provided a total of $31.7 million in grants to 3,425 households most impacted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pasadenastarnews.com\/tag\/eaton-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Eaton<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/tag\/palisades-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Palisades fires<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More than 9,600 individuals received grants that ranged from $6,000 to $18,000 to help with immediate relief before longer term aid was available.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis wasn\u2019t a full solution, but it was the support we could offer in a moment of real urgency,\u201d Rafael Carbajal, director of the Department of Consumer and Business Affairs, said in a statement. \u201cIt was a first step that helped survivors take their next one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than 51% of grant recipients reported the loss of equipment or tools, 43% had children in their household, 19% had no access to alternative housing and more than 21% lost their primary mode of transportation, according to the county.<\/p>\n<p>The grants were funded by a $28 million allocation from the Board of Supervisors, $2.5 million from FireAid and additional donations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was one of the very first grant programs established after the January wildfires, and the dollars went directly to impacted households,\u201d Supervisor Kathryn Barger said in a statement. \u201cThese funds made a tangible difference for families facing unimaginable loss and gave them critical support at a time when every bit of help mattered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/dcba.lacounty.gov\/household-relief-grant\/?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">dcba.lacounty.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles County Office of Consumer and Business Affairs provided a total of $31.7 million in grants&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[5759,7,4300,48,52,51,47,137,50,49,100,1977,5760,5761,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-5218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-altadena","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-eaton-fire","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-headlines","13":"tag-la-news","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-county","16":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","17":"tag-los-angeles-news","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-pasadena","20":"tag-san-gabriel-valley","21":"tag-sierra-madre","22":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218","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=5218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}