Warner Bros. Discovery is providing aid and assistance to workers who have been affected by the deadly wildfires in Los Angeles, Thewrap has learned. WBD CEO David Zaslav shared the news at an assembly on Thursday with workers, to whom he also expressed sympathy and concern.
The company has created a hotline for staff members, a new family business told Thewrap. This hotline is used to direct others to hotel rooms that Warner Bros. Discovery has already blocked and paid for, as well as shelters. They are also offering to pay for food to staff members who have taken care of displaced family and friends. The company will also continue to assess what affected staff members need in the medium and long term as this natural crisis unfolds.
According to a Puck report, 1,300 employees of Warner Bros. Discovery has already evacuated impacted spaces and 20 members have lost their homes.
Nexstar also offers a worker assistance fund designed for herbal mistakes like this one. The company is still comparing the effect of those fires on its Los Angeles-based workers, because it’s too early to say how many workers it will need, an informed source said. fear Thewrap. Since Nexstar is based in Texas and is a television group, the company is not as concentrated in Los Angeles as other networks and streamers.
The catastrophic forest fires in Los Angeles began on Tuesday. The low humidity, the dry conditions and winds of Santa Ana that exceed 90 miles per hour were combined to create one of the most harmful natural errors that the region has seen. On the fourth day of the fires, eight other people died and 10,000 structures were destroyed.
The largest fireplace remains the chimney of Palisades, which was 8 consistent with CENT contained on Friday after burning 20,438 acres. Other chimneys come with the Fire Eaton, which burned 13,690 acres and is now contained from 3%; Kenneth’s fire, which burned 1,000 acres; The Hurst fire, which burned 771 acres; And the fireplace of Lidia, which is about to be below, has burned 394 acres.
TheWrap will update this article as we learn more about the measures other Hollywood companies are taking to help their employees.
Editor’s note: A previous version of this story stated there was a confirmed 10 deaths due to the L.A. wildfires. LAFD has since corrected that number to eight.