Can anybody donate their hexayurts to house fire evacuees in California?

[Vinay Gupta (Hexayurt Shelter Project)]

Details below. I talked to Kathleen, and suggested maybe we could find some people to donate units - note that they've got people to build them, and can do the transport and logistics for the units - if they can find some units.

If you'd like to help, Kathleen is reachable at fireange...@gmail.com or 5302302198

I hope somebody can find her a few spare units. Thanks for your help.

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From: Fire Angels Network <fireange...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 6:39 AM
Subject: Butte county ca
To: <hexa...@gmail.com>

hello,

We are Grassroots organization of volunteers  working towards getting our nonprofit status .  We represent 1500 families who are survivors from the campfire that brought destruction to approximately fifty thousand people in Butte County California on November 8th 2018. The fire-ravaged multiple communities so quickly that some people did not have time to evacuate there were no warning signs. There are no alarms. The evacuation was a slow process too many people lost their lives on the side of the road trying to escape the fire. Now the families who have survived and decided to stay in Butte County are now homeless. Some of them sleeping in tents some of them sleeping in FEMA trailers some of them sleeping in hotel rooms being paid for by donor the small percentage has been able to get rentals in other locations. But a large population of people are still homeless and as of the 31st of January FEMA and Red Cross for pulling out so there will be no more assistance from those two agencies. So even though we are a small group of people than we are Grassroots organization currently we are Mighty and we are reaching out to you today for collaboration. We are proposing to you to donate some of your HexaYurts. We have manpower to build them we can get trucks to haul them we just need the structures. And it's urgent because like we said the end of the January the available resources that have been housing a large population of people are pulling out so those people are going to be on the streets with nowhere to go. And some of the area's it snowing and it gets below zero at night. Can you help?

Kathleen Kettering 

founder fire angels network 

5302302198

[Hal Muskat]

Vinay, Kathleen & others, 

I’m no sure we can help. Our hexayurts are not waterproof. The 4 x 8’ polyiso panels we use to put them together are NOT manufactured to be used outside. They are used inside the house - between outside covering and inside sheet rock. 

Also, as we have learned during rainy moments at Burning Man they are not leak proof without a lot of extra tape that doesn’t necessarily like water. 

They might last a month in this current weather. (I’m in 707) Not likely through the rest of our Northern Calif winter. A friend put one up a couple years ago in Sonoma and it did not make it through the winter. 

I know it’s not what you wanted to hear, but it’s the truth from my experience & perspective. 

I’m sorry, wish I could offer more. Peace, Hal Black Rock Hexayurts

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