Personal disaster in Calfornia's PG&E power shutoff

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7. Hi, I hope you'll call your local Red Cross and see what they can do for you.

It's been some years since I was on call to go to local disasters (most of them house fires), and I know things could have changed since then, but I've filled out lots of forms for people who were burned out of their homes to get, just as an example:
* hotel rooms (pet friendly!) for a few days
* replacement furniture
* replacement clothes
* replacement food (I used to keep the caseworker's office stocked with dog & cat food, not technically an RC benefit)
* replacement medicine
* help with finding a new place
* help with deposits
* help finding help
The Rs started infiltrating the RC in the 90s, but plenty of caseworkers and volunteers (still around 90% of the org) still want to do as much for people as possible.
We always said, "This is a gift from the American people." Please accept it if possible.