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Blogger hands out $165,000 to Mission (SF) fire victims
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Blogger-hands-out-165-000-to-Mission-fire-victims-6104825.phpThe blogger who was driven to action after watching onlookers film a Mission District fire on their cell phones while weeping residents fled the engulfed building finally got to help those weeping victims Thursday night...
As the 54 mostly poor Latinos displaced by the devastating Jan. 28 blaze looked on, 27-year-old Zack Crockett, who lives in the neighborhood, announced that he’d raised more than $180,000 on a crowd-funding site to help them find new homes....
“I could really only think of one thing as I watched your building burn: that inside each apartment families were raised, meals were shared, memories were made,” Crockett told the crowd. “I didn’t want to just be passive.”...
Middle schoolers held bake sales to donate, churches passed the hat, and Google — reviled by some for being a gentrifying force in the Mission — kicked in $16,000. Most of the money came in small chunks. In all, 2,300 people and businesses donated.
As the 54 mostly poor Latinos displaced by the devastating Jan. 28 blaze looked on, 27-year-old Zack Crockett, who lives in the neighborhood, announced that he’d raised more than $180,000 on a crowd-funding site to help them find new homes....
“I could really only think of one thing as I watched your building burn: that inside each apartment families were raised, meals were shared, memories were made,” Crockett told the crowd. “I didn’t want to just be passive.”...
Middle schoolers held bake sales to donate, churches passed the hat, and Google — reviled by some for being a gentrifying force in the Mission — kicked in $16,000. Most of the money came in small chunks. In all, 2,300 people and businesses donated.
