Nonprofit created by wildfire survivors helps support Palisades, Eaton survivors through recovery process

Story By: CBS News.

A shared experience is helping to heal the hearts and minds of some of those who lost their homes to the wildfires, and it’s also giving them the tools to rebuild.

The nonprofit organization, After the Fire USA, connects fire victims to those who have walked this extremely hard path before them. It was born out of the destructive wildfires in the Bay Area back in 2017.

Jennifer Gray Thompson, the founder, believes that the best people to help what she calls “fire survivors” begin to heal and rebuild is those who know exactly what it feels like to lose everything.