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The M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust has donated nearly $700,000 to a number of community foundations and relief organizations, as they continue responding to what’s considered the worst wildfire season in recorded history.
Jeff Pyle receives a meal from American Red Cross volunteers Roger Brubaker and Eliza Roaring Springs, at a hotel used by the American Red Cross as a shelter for evacuees from the Oregon wildfires in Eugene, OR, on September 14, 2020.
Credit Scott Dalton / American Red Cross
Carisa Hettich is executive director of the Southwest Oregon Chapter of the Red Cross. She says they received $50,000 from the trust, which they’ve used to provide hotel rooms, meals, and money to 16-hundred families affected by wildfires.