Shortly after wildfires began burning in Los Angeles, volunteers from California Volunteers and partnering organizations gathered at distribution and staging sites to package food and care kits, direct residents to recovery resources and prepare native-seed “seed balls” for placement in burned areas, organizers and volunteers said.

The effort — described in remarks from volunteer coordinators and participants at the sites — brought together groups including the LA Regional Food Bank, CCAC, College Board, UCLA, LA Works and the California Emergency Response Corps. Organizers announced a new campaign, called California Love California Strong, to encourage continued donations of time and resources to communities affected by the fires.

Volunteers described a mix of logistics and hands-on support at multiple distribution points. "So I'm Dani with CCAC. We're at the LA Regional Food Bank, and we are packaging foods," said Dani, with CCAC. Mike, with College Board, said, "My name is Mike. I'm with College Board. We're organizing care packages that includes things like donated clothes, toiletry items, self care items, things of that nature." Jasmine, from UCLA, described work on distribution: "My name is Jasmine. I am here from UCLA. We are, organizing the distribution of food and, clothing."

Other volunteers described nonmaterial support and resource navigation. "My name is Doug, a member of the CCAC. And today, we are helping mainly with crowd control, assisting people where to go for resources, whether it's FEMA or state or local agencies that can assist with various needs," Doug said. Sophia, representing LA Works, described an environmental-restoration activity tied to recovery: "Yeah. I'm Sophia, and my host program is LA Works. So we're making seed balls with a mix of California native wildflowers, and they're gonna go to areas that have been affected by the wildfires."

A member of the California Emergency Response Corps, Julian, said he came to help after hearing about the fires and praised volunteer participation: "My name is Julian. I'm a California emergency response corps member. I came down here once I heard about the fires. To see these kids, that's inspiring," Julian said, and added that the turnout would make Gov. Newsom and the team at California Volunteers proud. Multiple speakers described strong community generosity and called for continued support.

Organizers described the campaign as an appeal to all Californians to give time, resources and support to affected communities. The announcement emphasized volunteer deployment, food and clothing distribution, resource navigation to state and federal recovery programs and small-scale restoration projects such as native-seed planting.

The event remarks focused on on-the-ground volunteer activity and outreach; no formal government actions, votes or statutory changes were announced during these remarks. Volunteers and organizers urged continued contributions and volunteer hours to support wildfire recovery in the coming days and weeks.