Help the Steels After Devastating Fire

Hello my name is Adam Nee, a longtime Los Angeles resident, and I am hosting this fundraiser for my beautiful friends, the Steels, who lost their home and everything in it during the devastating fire in Altadena. I have known the Steel's for over 15 years now.

There are scarce words available to capture the amount of love and laughter this family has given to everyone they come in contact with. If you know them, you love them. Zach is an associate professor of theater at USC and Nicole is an artisan that creates beautiful embroidered goods as well as teaching pilates. Today they awaken to a new reality--with no home, and no possessions. The process of restoring their lives is only just beginning, and I ask that you join me in helping. Your help will allow us to address the many aspects of recovery and help support Zachary Steel, his wife Nicole, and their two children through this crisis.

Donations will supplement the prohibitively low insurance settlement that cannot come close to rebuilding the house they lost. The settlement deal they have been offered is less than half the value of the house they lost. Your donations will also go to paying for a rental, as the rebuilding process is still years away, due to the long clean up of the toxic burn site that is their Altadena neighborhood. Your donations will also help with school supplies, a car, as theirs was burned in the fire, clothing themselves and their two children, furniture, kitchenware, pots, pans, dishes, toiletries, towels, books, food, and all the unexpected costs that come with this tragedy, including computers they need for work and school.

I know there are many people in great need in this moment. And it is in moments like these that we surround our community and lift them up, carrying them through the painful turns of fate this life may offer. Thank you all for taking the time to read and consider helping this wonderful family.

Adam Nee