Los Angeles Fire - Helping Animals

 

What terrible scenes there are coming from Los Angeles.  All our thoughts and prayers are with everyone there, and especially the fire crews, emergency services, and everyone involved in animal rescue.  

I've put this page together VERY quickly - I hope this helps - please help animals if you can, be it donating, fostering, adopting, spreading the word... anything to lend a paw.   These people and animals need us...  I will keep adding to this as more information comes to light. 

Best Friends - their emergency response team is on the ground in Los Angeles, offering help and support to other local animal welfare organizations while also working to ensure the safety of their own pets and staff in their Pet Adoption Center.  Visit their website here and their Facebook page here

The Pasadena Humane Society are helping Eaton Fire evacuees and their animals - they have updates  here. They say many animals are coming in with burns and they need pain medications, wound care, fluid, and oxygen. They are working across state with shelters who have offered to take in the animals they were already caring for, so that they can focus on the animals affected by the fires.   They have a Pet Food Pantry with food, litter and other items;   they need people to foster and volunteer and donate -  you can contact them and get updates through their Facebook page.

The Pasadena Humane Society says many wild animals are coming to them needing help, and they are being treated at their Sandra J. Goodspeed Wildlife Center.  Many need oxygen and fluid.  The Society says donations going to them will help all animals, including wildlife, affected by the fires.   Please check their Facebook page for what to do if you find an injured wild animal (as these details may change fast).

PawsForLifeK9 are getting dogs to safety, booking as many transports as they can to relocate 300 dogs to safer locations which will free up vital space to help Los Angeles Animal Services with pets who have been displaced by fires.  You can donate here.  They also need crates  The money raised will help cover flights, food, daily care and medicines needed for the dogs coming into PawsForLifeK9 and going out on transport.   Wings of Rescue are working in partnership with them  by flying dogs and cats from 5 city shelters and 7 county shelters to Oregon and Seattle. (They have the wonderful tagline, Let the Fur Fly.)  They say, thanks to the Cencora Impact Foundation and a generous anonymous donor, all donations are doubled right now, making your gift go twice as far.  You can donate here. 

You can read an article on the Daily Mail website about the animals in the Los Angeles wildfires including how the Pasadena Human Society are helping them.  

Also, Newsweek have an article on the animals at LA Zoo published on 10th January 2025

Video, 9th January 2025:  San Diego Humane Society takes in nearly 40 dogs from Pasadena to free shelter space amid wildfires.  You can visit their website here.

 

You can donate to Pasadena Humane's efforts to help the animals here.  
Image copyright Pasadena Humane

IFAW:  Emergency support for community and animals impacted by Los Angeles wildfires is constantly assessing emerging needs and reaching out to the International Wildlife Rehabilitation Council (IWRC) to offer support to their members working in affected areas

PETA have Palisades Fire Survival Tips to Help Animals   
Image copyright PETA

Los Angeles County Care and Control Emergency Animal Shelter information - find out more here - there;s information for large animals and small animals 

The County of Los Angeles has more information about shelters here

The Los Angeles County Animal Care Foundation’s Noah’s Legacy Fund supports the Department’s emergency response efforts including wildfires, flooding, and earthquakes that can occur in the areas we serve.  Find out how you can give here

California Animal Response Emergency Support (CARES) sits within the Emergency Preparedness and Response Section of the Animal Health Branch in the Animal Health and Food Safety Services Division of CDFA. Its mission is "to collaborate with response agencies to build capabilities and coordination that protect the safety of animals during the four (4) phases of emergency management".

Newsweek has an article: California Fires: What Happens to Wildlife and Animals During Wildfires (8th January 2025)

Please use this terrible event as an opportunity to review your own evacuation procedures for your animals in the event of a natural disaster e.g. flooding, fire etc.  Be prepared.  What would you do?  What would you take for your pets and yourselves?  And is there anything you could offer an animal charity in dire need of help in such a situation?

The South LA Animal Shelter has information about Emergency Preparedness .  They also have a YouTube video about it and an Emergency Plan Checklist

For instance, many animal charities who are taking in pets affected by natural disasters need to free up space and may need foster homes to take in the animals they have so that they can give refuge and safety to those coming to them from a natural disaster zone.  

Praying for everyone in Los Angeles.