My first news about the Palisades fire came from a message in the WhatsApp group in the neighborhood. I learned from my neighbors in Del Rey that the fire broke out in the hills – over the neighborhood in which I grew up, where my parents are still living in our family’s home on the edge of the balls.
My neighborhood in Del Rey is likely to be harmful. However, when we all learned how quickly the fire spread, the WhatsApp neighborhood turned into a miniature resource center, and to exchange tips to stay safe and volunteer bedrooms and adus. An invitation to store the deep freezer available to the breast milk that was evacuated with the width has been met. Make everyone space.
Meanwhile, I gathered with pre -school friends, where our parents escaped from the parties and institutions that raised us in the fire. The library, the grocery store, the café in which I will always remember parking on the sofa with the best friend to discuss “1984” for hours – everything went. Was our church well? Nobody knows.
My parents evacuated my mother -in -law, and friends spread around Los Angeles. We all woke up to learn that many families, dear friends, lost their homes – every punch. Even the shopping area, the famous village in the city center, was ash.
The destruction of my community was perceived throughout Los Angeles Province. Etone’s fire in Altadina has burned tens of thousands of acres, including artists studios, music and important sites Angelino Black Heritage. Hurst is a fire threatening Silmar. Other fires, unlike the Los Angeles map the week, prompted the evacuation and fear of West Hollywood and West Valley.
Fire arrived in and crossed the city, and took, at this time of publication, 28 life and more than 16,000 structures. Meanwhile, despite the efforts to combat heroic fires, other government agencies planted confusion. Our leaders played Political blame game. The past decisions of not coordinating fire prevention Light to light. Even our emergency alert system failed, frightens every resident with a smartphone received The eviction notification was sent by error.
On the same day that the fires erupted, the outgoing United States surgeon issued the United States Vivek Mourthi a Separation. Senior doctor in the country spent his period in interviews with citizens all over the country, learn what contributed to their mental and physical health. From his research came a prescription: a nation that suffers from heart disease, diabetes, depression and the addiction crisis – more than anything else – in need of society.
“The breaking of society in America leads a deeper spiritual crisis that threatens our primary well -being,” Mortth wrote, and called for a fundamental shift “in how to build society and give the priorities of society.”
It witnessed how the networks of the Los Angeles community picked up the slowdown in institutions that failed to clarify the urgency of a genetic message. This recipe needs full.
The catastrophe receives the need for a society to a sharp comfort, but it is important to a place for daily health and luxury. Mortth explains that the “three columns” of society – relations, service and purpose – have been scientifically proven to affect both the average life and consent of life.
Mortth says that these columns can “can greatly affect health results, including early deaths, heart disease, depression and anxiety. Society also gives us strength and flexibility when facing great challenges and endless paper pieces with the movement across the world.”
However, as they see them, these columns have collapsed in recent years. and An increase in the amount of time people need to spend at work It means Less civil participation and social interaction. Epidem and social media alike InsulationWith the latter sowing to divide Discussions also moved from a person to the Internet. only 30% From people do volunteer work, and More than 60% From young people they say they feel without a direction.
Society is the cornerstone of both individual wellness and collective well -being at the best times. Now, friends, neighbors, and an army of Los Angeles volunteers prove that society is a strong stimulant in the worst.
Mortth explains that the way to build society through these three columns will take the individual effort and government investment. In -depth relations require reactions that go beyond group bicycles, and to promote sympathetic schools and workplaces. Providing the service means the desire to lend (and ask one of the neighbors to get help. Finding the purpose means access to education and resources that open the meaning in addition to the salary. The basis for all of this is the re -investment in the (blocked) societal infrastructure and social services that enable people to do more than just survival.
Society is the cornerstone of both of them Individual wellness and Group well -being At the best times. Now, friends, neighbors and army of Los Angeles volunteers It proves that society is a strong stimulant in their worst.
After sweeping the fires through the containers, we learned that in some of the Hanoka-ISIC miracle, the Pacific Pacific Pacific Church did not burn, the Kailal of Israel, even as the houses did on its mass. In the coming days, Ki has become a subject of support, practically and emotionally. Each of the personal services has been held in an area that a temple is deducted throughout the city, and an online symposium. Local officials and disaster recovery experts provided tangible advice and information, and gave the clergy and residents to each other and a space to retain each other’s pain. Even the early childhood center found a temporary space for its small youth group, Tot Shabbat, so that the youngest of the temple is still seeing and singing with their separation while evacuating their homes. It was clear that sadness with friends and strangers alike is the only real thing we can stick to for “strength and flexibility”, Moghiti speaks at a time like this.
Angelinus bowed all over the city to each other for support as well. The main workers who have lost fixed job opportunities in Palisades and Altadena Home find new opportunities in the neighborhoods where residents share the names of those looking for work, as in the neighborhood group conversation. A Gofundment For organizations that defend basic workers, they raised more than $ 90,000. For people looking for ways to help personally, every day, Network Network Aid Aid Los Angeles is updated Google Volunteer chances spread This contains dozens if not hundreds of viewers in all hours of the day and night; The centers of the volunteers are so busy that they are away from people. Teenage organizers Full on donations cosmetics For other adolescents affected by fires. Real estate agents provide free services to search for homes, salon workers, free haircuts, free restaurants and much more. Celebrities, like Beyonis, have given millions towards relief and recovery efforts; His general public A collection of 50 million dollars For those affected by fires on Gofundment alone.
All of these efforts are only possible because Angelinus decided to take care of each other. Fires showed that our city, a group of neighborhoods, is also a group of neighbors.
This overwhelming societal response to a crisis may help reduce the strike for some, to the extent that it is possible in the face of catastrophic loss. But society can not only be an interactive value. At the national level, the dedication of society as a civilian value and the way of life should be a local Blueck against natural disasters and the largest political forces. On the individual level, to search for society, and invite others in it, guarantee support in the face of both major challenges and “paper cuts”. Whether it is part of the Iman Foundation, participating in a call center or creating a call center such as neighborhood chat. Local clubs and volunteer opportunities can help you with your neighbors on common interests. In all these cases, society literally.
For this reason, the fires showed that building and investing in society and caring for it is important not only now, but always.
On Wednesday, January 8, one of Ki rabbis, Rabbi Daniel SherRegistered and posted a video on Instagram after discovering that he had just lost his home in his home:
He said: “Our society that we love is preciously in a state of chaos.” “But I know that we will take care of each other, communicate with each other, and we will rebuild. Many of us suffer from sorrow. But when society experiences sorrow together, this means that we can fix our hearts together as a society as well.”
As Mortth says, “A society that is based on love is a society that will stand.” This is contact from human being to human and mercy that will help us overcome the storm. Every text I sent and received to the affected friends I knew from pre -school days in Ki – whom I have not spoken with even years ago – contains these words: I love you. These links, and those that we have seen and tightened throughout the city, give me the hope that when it comes to recover from these fires, Los Angeles is about to manage the treatment of our former wounds.