Yesterday was an amazing day of outreach to the families displaced by the Kincade Fire here north of San Francisco. A Red Cross worker told one of our chefs, "With your meal, the food is love. Everyone in this room felt the love that you put into this meal for us and for everyone in the shelter." 

https://www.mercychefs.info/ca_wildfire_update_serving_meals_tonightMercy Chefs is in FULL MEAL PRODUCTION today from our "Mercy One" mobile kitchen here in Marin County. Working with our partners at Bethel Global Relief and local church volunteers, we'll be serving about 1,700 meals today -- breakfast, lunch and dinner -- primarily to families who have been displaced by the wildfires and are now in local shelters.

Depending on what happens with the winds today, that number could increase dramatically by tomorrow. Emergency officials here are bracing for the winds to increase to up to 65 MPH which would cause the fires to spread rapidly and force more people out of their homes and into the shelters. Also a "cold blue" for cold was issued last night and already the shelter numbers are increasing.

It's hard to describe to you the feeling I have driving through these California communities that are being hit with wildfires again.

This is the fourth consecutive year that Mercy Chefs has responded to the wildfire crisis here. The air is thick with the smell of smoke from the Kincade Fire. Just driving in this region causes one's eyes to burn and throat to hurt. Air quality is very bad and the situation is made worse by the fact that huge sections of the state are without power or facing power outages in the coming days. Hundreds of thousands are under evacuation orders. People are sleeping in their cars. On top of all this, it was unseasonably cold last night.

As we have been wrapping up our Dallas deployment, I have been closely monitoring the rapidly developing crisis in California where the wildfires are reaching what the governor is calling "historic" and "unprecedented" levels.

Winds over the weekend have been gusting to hurricane-force levels in some places and over 100,000 have already been evacuated. Relief agencies are now estimating that as many as 300 shelters and feeding sites may be opened.

The historic and deadly wildfires in northern California have scorched hundreds of thousands of acres and burned hundreds of structures to the ground. Mercy Chefs -- Grassfire's disaster relief partner -- is feeding body and soul in the midst of this ongoing natural disaster.

Today, our team will provide thousands of emergency meals to victims, volunteers and first responders. We urgently need your help!

Just $25 can help us provide 10 hot meals, while a donation of $50 can feed 20 victims, volunteers or first responders. If you can contribute $100 or more, please do so now!

As always, your gift is tax-deductible! Please complete the form below to stand with us to do the most good possible in northern California this week.

To support Mercy Chefs by check, simply print this page and mail it with your check to: Mercy Chefs, c/o Grassroots Action, P.O. Box 9095, Chesapeake, VA 23321

The historic and deadly wildfires in northern California have scorched hundreds of thousands of acres and burned hundreds of structures to the ground. Mercy Chefs fed body and soul in the midst of this ongoing natural disaster.

Over the past two weeks, our team provided thousands of emergency meals -- every day -- to victims, volunteers and first responders. We urgently need your help to fully fund this life-changing initiative!

Just $25 can help support our efforts to provide 10 hot meals, while a donation of $50 feeds 20 victims, volunteers or first responders. If you can contribute $100 or more, please do so now!

As always, your gift is tax-deductible! Please complete the form below to stand with us and help fully fund our northern California outreach.

To support Mercy Chefs by check, simply print this page and mail it with your check to: Mercy Chefs, c/o Grassroots Action, P.O. Box 9095, Chesapeake, VA 23321