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California LKQ employees served as dedicated volunteers during the dreadful Camp Fire of 2018.
olunteers from LKQ Corporation assembled in Chico and Stockton, California last November 2018 to help victims of the Camp Fire who were living in a makeshift tent camps. The Camp Fire tore through Paradise, California, becoming the deadliest and most destructive in state history. Damage from
Camp Fire was the costliest disaster in the world last year, topping out at $12.5 billion in insured losses, according to a report released on Jan. 10, 2019 by global reinsurance firm Munich RE.
The LKQ Stockton & Redding teams volunteered their own time and resources to pro- vide meals and supplies, such as toiletries and blankets, to over 1,000 California wildfire evacuees who were staying in a Walmart parking lot, and other camps in their community. “We fed so many and gave out a lot of blankets, gloves, and clothes in Chico,” says Carlos Rivera. “We had so much supplies that we served evacuees in Stockton, as well. There, the Stockton Police Department came out, we teamed up with some of my family members, who were serving turkey dinner plates and providing clothing, and others served the people in other ways. We helped a lot of people.” LKQ employees who volunteered in Chico were Carlos Rivera, Kevin Wilkinson, Leon Perkins, Arturo Arellano, William Hendrix, and Kevin’s girlfriend Melissa Altier, who also made toiletry packs for the fire victims.
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