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Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Wildfire news, October 8

California: Corporations donate funds for fire relief and to CalFire

The Chevron Corporation announced today that it has donated $500,000 to the State of California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to help support the cost of battling the state’s severe wildfires this year.

Other corporations have donated funds recently for "fire relief" in California. Wells Fargo donated $500,000; half will go to the Red Cross and the other half to other relief organizations. The Bank of America is donating $1,000,000 through its corporate foundation.

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