The Cummings family, which includes two children with special needs and an octogenarian aunt with dementia, lost everything when a fire gutted their home in the Walteria neighborhood of Torrance last month. The community has rallied around them, holding bake sales and setting up lemonade stands that have raised thousands of dollars for the family, which is leasing a home in Redondo Beach while their Torrance house is restored.
It'll be a long process -- expected to take about a year -- and your help is still needed. That's where a new blog, After the Cummings Fire, comes in.
The blog's first entry explains:
We created this blog as a central place to come to see what the Cummings family really needs. They will have the ability to update this list as they receive items, so we can really zero in on what will be most helpful to them.
An entry from the family itself follows: "We will miss ... Walteria. ... Our family is in awe with your generosity, kindness and support."
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