Updated: Mon, Dec 28, 2020, 11:18 am
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A fire at an Oakwood Avenue home in East Palo Alto displaced 11 residents on Dec. 24. Courtesy Menlo Fire
The family of Frida Velazquez, whose house was damaged by the Dec. 24 fire on Oakwood Avenue, has started a GoFundMe page to raise money for the recovery effort. For more information or to donate, visit this page.
Eleven East Palo Alto residents, including four children, were displaced Thursday morning after a fire damaged their Oakwood Avenue home.
None of the occupants were injured in the fire, which began on the first floor of the two-story residential building, according to a news release from Menlo Park Fire Protection District Fire Chief Harold Schapelhouman. A neighbor saw smoke coming from the building at about 9:59 a.m. and called 911 before going to warn the residents, Schapelhouman said in the news release.