Joel & Dora Clement Family, Paradise
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Our friends the Clement Family lost everything in the Paradise fire.
If you’re here, you likely know Joel & Dora Clement and their kids Raquelle and Luke. As the CampFire inferno swept across Paradise this last November 8 they safely escaped the ridge with themselves, their pets, and as Joel said “half a trunk full of who knows what”. By nightfall they’d made it south on highway 99 to Live Oak where Dora’s parents live. For the time being they have a roof over their heads and they aren’t stuck at an evacuation center or the tent city at Chico’s Walmart parking lot. However this is not a long term solution.
This last Monday they got access to their property to confirm the worst:
Street-side from the bottom of their driveway.
View from their front yard
I expect that they have some kind of home insurance and that the paperwork and red tape and bureaucracy will work out at some point and they’ll see some money, but I’d like to see them have some cash in pocket to start rebuilding their lives sooner.
In the moment of the crisis nothing else matters but staying alive and getting away. As Joel said last Friday, once the shock wears off the reality sets in. Where will they live? Where will they work? What clothes will they wear tomorrow? They’ll have to rebuild $1 at a time.
I’m inviting you, the friends and family of Joel & Dora Clement to help with monetary gifts to help them start putting their lives back together again.
Whether you can help with $1, $10 or $100, it will make a difference to them.
If you’re here, you likely know Joel & Dora Clement and their kids Raquelle and Luke. As the CampFire inferno swept across Paradise this last November 8 they safely escaped the ridge with themselves, their pets, and as Joel said “half a trunk full of who knows what”. By nightfall they’d made it south on highway 99 to Live Oak where Dora’s parents live. For the time being they have a roof over their heads and they aren’t stuck at an evacuation center or the tent city at Chico’s Walmart parking lot. However this is not a long term solution.
This last Monday they got access to their property to confirm the worst:
Street-side from the bottom of their driveway.
View from their front yard
I expect that they have some kind of home insurance and that the paperwork and red tape and bureaucracy will work out at some point and they’ll see some money, but I’d like to see them have some cash in pocket to start rebuilding their lives sooner.
In the moment of the crisis nothing else matters but staying alive and getting away. As Joel said last Friday, once the shock wears off the reality sets in. Where will they live? Where will they work? What clothes will they wear tomorrow? They’ll have to rebuild $1 at a time.
I’m inviting you, the friends and family of Joel & Dora Clement to help with monetary gifts to help them start putting their lives back together again.
Whether you can help with $1, $10 or $100, it will make a difference to them.
Organizer and beneficiary
Jon Mattison
Organizer
Napa, CA
Joel Clement
Beneficiary