Overview
- Brandon Castro lost his Altadena home in January’s Eaton Fire and suffered severe burns to his feet while fleeing barefoot.
- He had lost his homeowner’s insurance before the blaze and rotated through student housing, friends’ places, and a short-term rental scheduled to end in December.
- Emergency RV founders Woody and Luna Faircloth surprised him on Thanksgiving with an RV, delivering it to the lot where his four-generation family home once stood.
- Castro says the RV lets him stay in his community without monthly housing uncertainty and gives him renewed hope as he recovers.
- Emergency RV, founded after the 2018 Camp Fire, says it has delivered 38 motorhomes to Eaton Fire families and assisted roughly 350 families nationwide.